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Luke 19

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luke.19.lk19Having

λέγω [γάρ] ... ἀρθήσεται [ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ]

TEXTmoderate confidence

Does the maxim include explanatory and explicit-object expansions?

Witnesses vary over ‘for’ after ‘I tell you’ and whether the final taking explicitly says ‘from him.’

Why this default

The shorter maxim is default on strong early support; explanatory γάρ and the explicit final object are natural expansions.

Evidence

ExternalThe shorter elements have important early support; the expanded form is broad.

InternalBoth additions clarify the maxim’s logic and final referent.

Project default‘I tell you: to everyone who has it will be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken.

Project default · shorter reading

Witnessesλέγω ... ἀρθήσεται — א*, B, L and early support
Alternative‘For I tell you: to everyone who has it will be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

Expanded tradition

Witnessesλέγω γάρ ... ἀρθήσεται ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ — א², A, D, W, Θ, Ψ, families 1 and 13, Byzantine witnesses
Alternative‘[For] I tell you: to everyone who has it will be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken [from him].

Expansions visibly marked

Witnessesγάρ and ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ present or absent — fork displayed

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