Matthew 24:36 ouvde. o` ui`o,j {B}

The words “neither the Son” are lacking in the majority of the witnesses of Matthew, including the later Byzantine text. On the other hand, the best representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text contain the phrase. The omission of the words because of the doctrinal difficulty they present is more probable than their addition by assimilation to Mark 13:32. Furthermore, the presence of mo,noj and the cast of the sentence as a whole (ouvde.ouvde, … belong together as a parenthesis, for eiv mh. o` path.r mo,noj goes with ouvdei.j oi=den) suggest the originality of the phrase.

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