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Luke 18:25

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a camel: Some render a cable; but it may justly be doubted whether καμηλος: strong:G2574 ever was so translated before, for the word for a cable, as the scholiast on Aristophanes expressly affirms, is written καμιλος:, not with an "e" η:, but with an "i" ι:.

Some few manuscripts, it is true, have got the word καμιλος: into the text, but it is evidently an attempted improvement.

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