Mark 3 : 24

EN If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

ES Y si algún reino contra sí mismo fuere dividido, no puede permanecer el tal reino.

ZH-HANS 若一国自相纷争，那国就站立不住；

ZH-HANT 若一國自相紛爭，那國就站立不住；

Critical apparatus

4 variants · 3 witnesses

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omission Two witnesses

Greek NT καὶ

Vulgate Et

Greek καί and Latin Et open the conditional clause coordinatively; the Peshitta omits an initial conjunction here, instead deploying the postpositive explanatory particle ܓܝܪ ('for') after the subject (token 2), reorganising the discourse logic from simple coordination to causal explanation.

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expansion Peshitta only

Peshitta ܓܝܪ

The Peshitta inserts the postpositive particle ܓܝܪ ('for, indeed'), a frequent Syriac rendering choice that supplies an explanatory/causal nuance absent from both the Greek and Latin, which present the clause as a bare conditional protasis.

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construction All three attest

Greek NT οὐ

Peshitta ܠܡܩܡ

Vulgate stare

All three attest the infinitive 'to stand' (σταθῆναι / ܠܡܩܡ / stare), but the Vulgate postpones it to clause-final position after the subject 'that kingdom' (regnum illud stare), whereas Greek and Syriac place the infinitive immediately after the modal verb, a purely stylistic Latin word-order preference.

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grammar All three attest

Greek NT δύναται σταθῆναι

Peshitta ܡܠܟܘܬܐ

Vulgate regnum

Greek marks 'the kingdom' with the definite article ἡ before βασιλεία; both Latin (regnum) and Syriac (ܡܠܟܘܬܐ, emphatic state) lack a separate article-word, expressing definiteness morphologically or by context rather than by a discrete particle.