Romans 11:21

Romans 11:21 @mh, pwj# ouvde, {C}

On the one hand, the strong combination of a B C 81 1739 in support of the shorter text would normally be preferred. On the other hand, however, (a) mh, pwj is a typically Pauline expression (it occurs in nine other passages in Paul; only once elsewhere in the New Testament), and (b) copyists may have taken offense at its presence here because of its apparent unrelatedness (Origen substituted the more appropriate po,sw| ma/llon and po,sw| ple,on — see Tischendorf in loc.) and its grammatical inappropriateness with the following future. In order to give due weight to both external evidence and internal considerations, a majority of the Committee considered it necessary to retain mh, pwj in the text, but to enclose it within square brackets.