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1. εἴ τις σπλάγχνα. So אABCD2G2 and all extant uncials. “Of the cursives nearly the same must be said” (Scrivener, Introd. to Crit. of N. T., ii. 386). Three important copies of vulg read si quid viscera instead of si qua viscera. Basil Chrys (in MS.) τις. A few cursives read εἴ τι. Most copies of vulg favour τινα, and so Clem Alex and other fathers, “as edited” (Tisch). “It may be stated that no MS. whatever has been cited for τινα” (Scrivener, l.c.). LTTr Alf Ltft WH εἴ τις, Ell Wordsw τινα. Tisch thinks that the evidence proves τις to have been “tolerable even to Greek ears.” Scriv, on the other hand, after a strong statement of the evidence, says (p. 387) “yet we may believe the evidence to be as false as it is intolerable, and to afford us another proof of the early and … well nigh universal corruption of our copies in some minute particulars.… Probably St Paul wrote τι, … which would readily be corrupted into τις, by reason of the σ following (ΤΙΣΠΛΑΓΧΝΑ) and the τις which had just preceded.”