Ephesians 6:19 tou/ euvaggeli,ou {A}

Although it may appear noteworthy that B joins G itg, mon al in supporting the shorter reading, in the Pauline corpus codex Vaticanus not infrequently displays a strand of Western contamination, and therefore the weight of its testimony, when united with Western witnesses, should not be overevaluated. Moreover, it is significant that besides tou/ euvaggeli,ou there is no other variation, such as tou/ Cristou/ or tou/ qeou/ (for which there are parallels in Ephesians 3:4; Colossians 2:2; Colossians 4:3), as one might have expected if, in fact, the shorter reading were original and tou/ euvaggeli,ou were a scribal addition.

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