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Luke’s account of the angel and bloody sweat is ancient, difficult, absent in important witnesses, present in others, and displaced in some. The case gathers the series’ seven…
Open record →The readings at 1 Timothy 3:16 and 1 John 5:7–8 require paleography, grammar, patristic and versional evidence, reception, and rival histories that no single canon can control.
Open record →Romans 5:1 shows internal evidence overruling stronger witnesses, while Acts 20:28 shows that two rival readings may each be difficult in a different way.
Open record →Mark 1:2 sets harder against shorter and broader reception; Matthew 24:36 sets difficulty against anti-harmonization. Neither variation unit is decided by one familiar maxim.
Open record →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…
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