Ephesians 1:15

Ephesians 1:15 kai. th.n avga,phn th.n eivj pa,ntaj tou.j a`gi,ouj {B}

The shorter reading kai. th.n eivj pa,ntaj tou.j a`gi,ouj (î⁴⁶ a* B P 33 1739 al) appears to be the result of an accident in transcription, occasioned by homoeoarcton (th.n … th,n). If, as some scholars have suggested, the shorter reading is original and the addition is derived from Colossians 1:4, h]n e;cete would have been inserted instead of the second th,n. The rearrangement of the sequence of the words so as to dispense with the second th,n (81 104 256 al) is clearly a secondary modification.