John 10:8

John 10:8 h=lqon @pro. evmou/# {C}

It is difficult to decide whether copyists added pro. evmou/, before or after h=lqon, in order to make more sense from a highly compressed statement, or whether they omitted the words in order to lessen the possibility of taking the passage as a blanket condemnation of all Old Testament worthies. Although the external evidence for the shorter text is impressive (î^{45vid, 75} a* E F G M S U G D 28 892 and most minuscules, it^{a, b, c, e, ff2, l, q, r1} vg syr^{s, p, h, pal} cop^{sa, boms, ach2} goth al), and although the divided testimony regarding the position of pro. evmou/ would normally suggest the secondary character of the words, a majority of the Committee, observing that several witnesses (D it^{b, d} vg^ms) omit pa,ntej in order to lessen the scope and drastic nature of the statement, judged that the least unsatisfactory decision was to retain the words pro. evmou/ after h=lqon but to enclose them within square brackets.