Luke 24:32

Luke 24:32 h`mw/n kaiome,nh h=n

The word kaiome,nh seems to have given trouble to copyists. The reading of D^gr h=n h`mw/n kekalumme,nh (“Was not our heart veiled…?”) may have been derived from 2 Corinthians 3:14-16. The early versions offer a wide variety of readings: among the Old Latin manuscripts excaecatum (it^c) and optusum (it^l) seem to imply pephrwme,nh or pepwrwme,nh (“blinded” or “hardened”); less obvious as to its origin is the reading of it^e exterminatum (“destroyed”), though this may be a scribal blunder for exterritum (“terrified”).

The Old Syriac (Sinaitic and Curetonian) manuscripts and the Peshitta version read “Was not our heart heavy…?” ¹⁹ as do also the Armenian version, the Arabic and Persian Harmonies, and one manuscript of the Sahidic version; this reading seems to imply bradei/a in Greek, probably from ver. Luke 24:25, w= avno,htoi kai. bradei/j th|/ kardi,a| tou/ pisteu,ein…The other Sahidic manuscripts read, “Is not then our heart being covered for us…?”

“Burning,” which is attested by the overwhelming preponderance of witnesses, best suits the context.

¹⁹ In Syriac the difference between the words for “heavy” and “burning” is only the position of a dot; the former is spelled and the latter .