Revelation 1:6

Revelation 1:6 eivj tou.j aivw/naj @tw/n aivw,nwn# {C}

The words tw/n aivw,nwn are absent from î¹⁸ A P about thirty minuscules cop^bo Andrew^a, but are present in a C 046 1 1006 1611 1854 2053 it^{gig, h, ar} vg syr^{ph, h} arm eth Andrew^{bav, c, p} Arethas. It is difficult to decide whether the shorter text arose accidentally through scribal oversight, or whether the words were added by copyists in accord with the customary liturgical formula. Since the fuller form occurs eleven other times in Revelation ( Revelation 1:18; Revelation 4:9, Revelation 4:10; Revelation 5:13; Revelation 7:12; Revelation 10:6; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 15:7; Revelation 19:3; Revelation 20:10; Revelation 22:5), the Committee was reluctant to drop tw/n aivw,nwn from the text here. At the same time, however, since copyists tended to expand such doxological formulas, it seemed best to enclose the words within square brackets, thus indicating doubt concerning their right to stand in the text.