MATTHEW 2:5 dia. tou/ profh,tou Not content with merely the mention of tou/ profh,tou several witnesses (4 syrhmg (ms) copboms) add Micai,ou, and ita reads _per Esiam prophetam dicentem_ (“through Isaiah the prophet saying”).... [ Continue Reading ]
MATTHEW 2:18 klauqmo,j {B} The longer reading, qrh/noj kai. klauqmo,j, appears to be a scribal assimilation to the Septuagint text of Jeremiah 31:15 (LXX 38:15). It entered the Textus Receptus and lies behind the rendering of the AV, “lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning.”... [ Continue Reading ]