Mark 10 - In Depth Bible Commentaries

1610 1611and the two will become into one flesh.' So that no longer are they two, but one flesh.1609(...continued)Theta, Family 13 of Minuscules, the “Majority Text,” the Latin Vulgate, a few of the OldLatin witnesses, the Peshitta Syriac, the Harclean Syriac and the Coptic tradition.Alexandrinus, Ephraemi Rescriptus, L, N, Delta, Family 1 of Minuscules,Minuscule 579 and some other Greek manucripts have this reading, but change from theaccusative th.n genai/ka, ten gunaika, “the wife,” to the dative th| gunaiki,, te gunaiki, “to thewife.”We think it unlikely that later copyists would have omitted the phrase if it had beenfound in the original, but it is very likely that they would add the phrase that is found in theJewish Bible. Whether read or not does not change the meaning of Mark concerningmarriage. The phrase has been placed in brackets due to uncertainty as to whether or notit was in the original. It is most probable that the words have been added in later Greekmanuscripts, because of their presence in the Jewish Bible.France comments that this clause “seems so central to the argument that it is hardto imagine the quotation from Genesis 2:24 being made without it. But by the same tokenit is hard to explain its deliberate omission if it were once in the text. It is thereforeprobably safer to assume that the clause dropped out accidentally (as the first of two linesbeginning with kai, kai, ‘and.’” (P. 387)1610These words are quoted from Genesis 2:25, which is part of a larger passage,Genesis 2:19-25.2.19 @A[-lK' taew> hd,F'h; tY:x;-lK' hm'd'a]h' !mi ~yhil{a/ hw"hy> rc,YIw:~d'a'h' Al-ar'q.yI rv,a] lkow> Al-ar'q.YI-hm; tAar>li ~d'a'h'-la, abeY"w: ~yIm;V'h;`Amv. aWh hY"x; vp,nn