Mark 10 : 18

The Peshitta omits the Greek article-conjunction phrase Ὁ δὲ (nominative article + postpositive δέ), which the Vulgate renders as autem. Syriac typically lacks the article and often omits Greek postpositives when the discourse flow is clear from context.

The Vulgate inserts a colon after ei to mark the transition to direct discourse, a punctuation convention absent in Greek manuscripts (which use a raised dot or no mark) and irrelevant to Syriac orthography.

The Peshitta explicitly supplies the second-person pronoun ܐܢܬ ('you') as subject of the verb ܩܪܐ ('call'), making explicit what is implicit in the Greek verb ending λέγεις and Latin dicis. This is a typical Syriac clarifying gloss for emphasis or disambiguation.

The Vulgate places a question mark after bonum, segmenting the rhetorical question from the following assertion. Greek manuscripts use a semicolon (αὐτῷ·) or no punctuation; Peshitta lacks punctuation marks entirely, relying on syntactic structure.

Greek uses the conditional construction εἰ μή ('if not' = 'except'), which Peshitta mirrors with ܐܠܐ ܐܢ (a double-particle exception formula), while Vulgate employs the single conjunction nisi. All three express the same exceptive logic but through tradition-specific syntactic patterns.

Greek retains the article ὁ before θεός ('the God'), emphasizing definiteness; both Peshitta (ܐܠܗܐ) and Vulgate (Deus) omit the article, as Syriac uses the emphatic state and Latin lacks articles. The semantic force (monotheistic uniqueness) remains identical across all three traditions.