Luke 6:1

Luke 6:1 sabba,tw| {C}

The word deuteroprw/toj occurs nowhere else, and appears to be a vox nulla that arose accidentally through a transcriptional blunder. Perhaps some copyist introduced prw,tw| as a correlative to evn e`te,rw| sabba,tw| in ver. Luke 6:6, and a second copyist, in view of Luke 4:31, wrote deute,rw|, deleting prw,tw| by using dots over the letters — which was the customary way of cancelling a word. A subsequent transcriber, not noticing the dots, mistakenly combined the two words into one, which he introduced into the text. Alternatively, as Skeat has suggested, ⁸ by dittography the letters batw were added to sabba,tw|. A later copyist interpreted the b as deute,rw| and the a as prw,tw|, and took tw| as an indication that the adjective was to agree with sabba,tw|.

⁸ T. C. Skeat in Novum Testamentum, XXX (1988), pp. 103—106.