John 10:22

John 10:22 to,te {B}

Of the four variant readings, de. to,te (1321 cop^{samss, bo, ach2}) can be dismissed as a conflation, and the absence of any particle (¦¹ 565 1010 1344 it^{a, b} syr^s geo¹ al) is due either to an accident in transmission or to deliberate omission at the beginning of a lection. Both to,te and de, are well attested. In view of the preceding evge,neto the origin of either reading (egenetotote or egenetode) is susceptible of explanation on transcriptional grounds (dittography or haplography), followed by confusion (not infrequent in some Greek manuscripts) of de, and te. After considerable debate a majority of the Committee preferred to,te as “too appropriate not to have been included originally.”