Matthew 5:4,5

Matthew 5:4-5 maka,rioi … paraklhqh,sontai) (5) maka,rioi … th.n gh/n) {B}

If verses Matthew 5:3 and Matthew 5:5 had originally stood together, with their rhetorical antithesis of heaven and earth, it is unlikely that any scribe would have thrust ver. Matthew 5:4 between them. On the other hand, as early as the second century copyists reversed the order of the two beatitudes so as to produce such an antithesis and to bring ptwcoi, and praei/j into closer connection.