Mark 10:7

Mark 10:7 (Traditional text)

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           ...ΕNΕKΕN TOΥTOΥ KΑTΑΛΕIΨΕI
ΑNΘΡΩΠOΣ TON ΠΑTΕΡΑ ΑΥTOΥ KΑI THN MHTΕΡΑ
KΑI ΠΡOΣKOΛΛHΘHΣΕTΑI ΠΡOΣ THN ΓΥNΑIKΑ ΑΥTOΥ
KΑI ΕΣONTΑI OI ΔΥO ΕIΣ ΣΑΡKΑ MIΑN
ΩΣTΕ OΥKΕTI ΕIΣIN ΔΥO ΑΛΛΑ MIΑ ΣΑΡΞ ...

'For this reason a man shall leave
his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.' -
So no longer
are they two but one flesh. ...

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INCLUDE LINE: ... All other Uncials, Byz (all other cursives), Lect (all Lectionaries), all other versions, all other patristic evidence

OMIT: (א), B, ψ 892* syr ^s, goth

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There it is again, this time likely from an older single-column papyrus with its wider columns:

similar start of line (Homoioarcton), which morphs into a homoioteleuton, resulting in the loss of the third line here.

No doubt this was an early boo-boo. And it was quickly corrected and/or prevented from entering all the surviving streams of transmission...

- except, of course, the two Alexandrian MSS and a handful of followers: critics and modern versions numbly strike out the line.

It should be noted that the diverse clustering of the textual support between cases (as well as variations like length of line) indicate that these omissions come from different times and places.

This plainly demonstrates that at least some of these omissions cannot be the original text. But it IS possible that NONE of the omissions are original.