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 places 'Jesus' (Jesus) in initial position before autem, whereas Greek and Peshitta position the subject after the conjunction/particle. This reflects Latin stylistic preference for fronting proper names in narrative speech introductions.

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.

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.