Matthew 6:8

Matthew 6:8 o` path.r u`mw/n {A}

The expanded reading o` qeo.j o` path.r u`mw/n (a<sup>a</sup> B cop<sup>sa</sup> Origen) occurs nowhere else in Matthew, and is a scribal intrusion reflecting a characteristically Pauline collocation of qeo,j and path,r ( Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:3; Ephesians 1:2; Ephesians 6:23; Philippians 1:2; Philippians 2:11; Colossians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:1, 2 Thessalonians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:4; Philemon 1:3). The reading o` path.r u`mw/n o` ouvra,nioj, found in several later witnesses, is obviously conformed to the text of ver. Matthew 6:9. The occurrence of h`mw/n instead of u`mw/n in several witnesses is due to scribal inadvertence, since in later Greek h and u were pronounced alike.