Luke 1:35

Luke 1:35 gennw,menon {A}

The words evk sou/ are apparently an early addition prompted by a desire for greater symmetry after the two preceding instances of the second person pronoun. The expanded reading gained wide currency in the early church through Tatian’s Diatessaron. The reading (literally “in thee”), for which Dionysius Barsalibi (died A.D. 1171) argues vigorously in his commentary on Luke, ¹ is read by the earliest manuscripts of the Peshitta (the Curetonian and Sinaitic Syriac manuscripts are not extant here) and is adopted as the text in Pusey and Gwilliam’s critical edition.

¹ See Tj. Baarda, “Dionysios bar ‚al£b£ and the Text of Luke 1:35, ” Vigiliae Christianae, XVII (1963), pp. 225—229.