2 Corinthians 4:14

2 Corinthians 4:14 to.n ku,rion VIhsou/n {B}

A majority of the Committee was impressed by the diversity of the witnesses supporting the presence of ku,rion (a C D G K L P Y 88 614 Byz Lect it^{d, g} syr^h cop^bo goth eth al), and explained the shorter reading as an assimilation to Romans 8:11. The other readings are obvious scribal expansions.

[Due consideration should be given to the weight of the evidence supporting the shortest reading: î⁴⁶ B and 33 are strong Alexandrian witnesses; it^r vg and Tertullian are Western; and cop^{sa, boms} and arm are proof of still wider dissemination of the reading to.n VIhsou/n. The likelihood that all of these text-types would have undergone scribal assimilation to Romans 8:11 is not nearly so great as the ever-present tendency of pious scribes to expand by adding ku,rion — as, in fact, h`mw/n and Cristo,n also were added later. The word ku,rion should therefore not stand in the text. B.M.M.] [Or, if it is admitted into the text, it should be enclosed within square brackets. C.M.M.]