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Mark 12 : 31

EN The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

ES Y el segundo es semejante á él: Amarás á tu prójimo como á ti mismo. No hay otro mandamiento mayor que éstos.

ZH-HANS 其次就是说：『要爱人如己。』再没有比这两条诫命更大的了。」

ZH-HANT 其次就是說：『要愛人如己。 』再沒有比這兩條誡命更大的了。」

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Critical apparatus

6 variants · 3 witnesses
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construction All three attest
Greek NT καὶ δευτέρα
Peshitta ܘܕܬܪܝܢ
Vulgate Secundum autem

Greek uses the conjunction καί + adjective δευτέρα ('and a second'); the Vulgate renders this with secundum...autem, employing the postpositive adversative particle autem to mark a mild contrast absent from Greek and Syriac. Syriac compresses the whole into the single relative-prefixed form ܘܕܬܪܝܢ ('and that-of-second'), a typical economy of the Peshitta.

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grammar All three attest
Greek NT ὁμοία
Peshitta ܕܕܡܐ
Vulgate simile est

Greek ὁμοία and Syriac ܕܕܡܐ stand without an explicit copula; the Vulgate supplies the verb est ('is') to complete the Latin clause simile est, since Latin tolerates the verbless predicate less readily than the Semitic and Greek idioms.

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construction All three attest
Greek NT τὸν πλησίον σου
Peshitta ܠܩܪܝܒܟ
Vulgate tuum tamquam

Greek expresses 'your neighbour' analytically with article, adverbial substantive and genitive pronoun (τὸν πλησίον σου), matched by Latin proximum tuum; Syriac compresses noun and possessive suffix into the single inflected form ܠܩܪܝܒܟ, a normal Semitic morphological synthesis.

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punctuation Two witnesses
Greek NT τὸν
Vulgate Diliges

The Vulgate inserts an explicit colon (:) before the quoted commandment, supplying punctuation that frames the Old Testament citation (Lev 19:18); neither the Greek nor Syriac mark the quotation orthographically here.

𝔊 grk ℙ syr 𝔙 vul
construction All three attest
Greek NT τούτων
Peshitta ܡܢ ܗܠܝܢ
Vulgate aliud

Greek expresses the comparison with the bare genitive of comparison τούτων ('than these'), and Latin likewise with the genitive horum; Syriac uses the analytic comparative ܡܢ ܗܠܝܢ ('from these'), the standard Semitic periphrasis for the comparative degree.

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idiom All three attest
Greek NT οὐκ ἔστιν
Peshitta ܠܝܬ
Vulgate est

Greek negates with οὐκ ἔστιν and Latin with non est ('there is not'); Syriac employs the single negative existential particle ܠܝܬ, which fuses negation and the verb 'to be' in one lexeme, a characteristic Aramaic construction.