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Mat_3:3. ὑπό ] B C D à , 1, 13, 33, 124, 157, 209, Syrcur Sahid. Aeth. Vulg. It. Sax. read διά ; so Griesbach, Gersdorf, Schulz, Lachm., Tisch. Correctly; see on Mat_2:17.
Mat_3:4. The position ἦν αὐτοῦ (Lachm., Tisch.) is, by means of B C D à , 1, 209, so sufficiently attested, that it must be preferred to the ordinary position αὐτοῦ ἦν , which spontaneously suggested itself to the copyists.
Mat_3:6. Ἰορδάνῃ ] B C* M Δ à , Curss., and many Verss. and Fathers, add ποταμῷ ; so Lachm. and Tisch. 8. Addition from Mar_1:5.
Mat_3:7. The αὐτοῦ was easily passed over after βάπτισμα as unnecessary; it is wanting, however, only in B à *, Sahid. Or. Hil., but is deleted by Tisch. 8.
Mat_3:8. καρπὸν ἄξιον ] Elz. has καρποὺς ἀξίους , after too weak testimony. Retained by Fritzsche. It arose from the copyists, who deemed the plural more appropriate to the sense, and had Luk_3:8 in view.
Mat_3:10. δὲ καί ] Lachm. Tisch.: δέ , which is so preponderantly attested by B C D M Δ à , Curss. Verss. Or. Ir. Did. Bas., that δὲ καί is to be regarded as introduced from Luk_3:9.
Mat_3:14. Instead of ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης , Lachm. and Tisch. 8 have only ὁ δέ , after B à , Sahid. Eus. Correctly; the name was much more easily interpolated than omitted.
Mat_3:16. The transposition εὐθὺς ἀνέβη in B D à , Curss. Verss. and Fathers (so Lachm. and Tisch.), is a change, which assigned to the εὐθύς its more usual place (Gersdorf, I. p. 485).
αὐτῷ ] is bracketed by Lachm., deleted by Tisch., but has a decided preponderance of witnesses in its favour, and its significance was easily misunderstood and passed over.
καί ] before ἐρχόμ . is to be defended on decisive testimony, against Tisch. 8; comp. on Mat_3:2.