Revelation 9:13

Revelation 9:13 mi,an evk tw/n @tessa,rwn# kera,twn {C}

The weight of the external evidence for the presence and for the absence of tessa,rwn is almost evenly balanced. Among internal considerations, on the one hand it is possible that the word was added in order to make an antithesis to fwnh.n mi,an and a parallelism with tou.j te,ssaraj avgge,louj of ver. Revelation 9:14; on the other hand it is possible that the word was accidentally omitted in transcription when the eye of the scribe passed from tw/n to the last letters of tessa,rwn. In view of such considerations a majority of the Committee thought it best to include the word in the text, but to enclose it within square brackets. Among the singular readings the omission of mi,an … kera,twn in a* is noteworthy.