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Scribes sometimes harmonized parallel passages, but authors, memory, worship, and shared events also produce agreement, while scribal corruption can create difference. Disharmony is not self-authenticating.
Open record →Lectio difficilior assumes that scribes smooth what troubles them. But errors also create difficulty, and the critic must define hard, identify its cause, and guard against smuggling a…
Open record →Eye-skip, abbreviation, memory, deliberate pruning, and measured scribal habits show why the shorter reading may be secondary. The proper comparison is causal, not merely numerical.
Open record →Lectio brevior is plausible because texts can grow through glosses, titles, parallels, and liturgy. Yet length becomes evidence only after a real mechanism of expansion has been shown.
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