Hebrews 3:2

Hebrews 3:2 @o[lw|# {C}

Both external evidence and transcriptional probabilities are singularly difficult to evaluate. On the one hand, o[lw| is read by a wide variety of text-types, but is suspect as having been conformed to the text of ver. Hebrews 3:5 and/or of Numbers 12:17 LXX. On the other hand, several early and excellent witnesses (î¹³ î^46vid B, joined by cop^{sa, bo, fay} al) lack o[lw|, but the omission may be a deliberate (Alexandrian?) emendation, introduced in order to render the Old Testament quotation more appropriate to the argument (in ver. Hebrews 3:2 “whole” disturbs the parallelism between Moses and Jesus). In the face of such a balance of possibilities, a majority of the Committee thought it best to include o[lw| in the text, but to enclose it within square brackets in order to express doubt whether it belongs there.