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mrobinsn@mercury.interpath.com said:
>                                         ...My suspicion is that, 
> were the more purely Byzantine readings added in from N27, the Vulgate 
> would end up appearing even LESS aligned with the Byzantine Textform than 
> the UBS data tend to imply.

Yup.
Even the NA apparatus is highly biased (selective) in this regard.
In a study I did of 179 variants dividing the Byzantine and Alexandrian
traditions, 30% of them (53) went unmentioned in the NA26 apparatus,
and of course many fewer in the UBS apparatus.

Vincent Broman

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