:TEXT: "What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?" : S,c \ A C \ 81 \ syr(pal) cop : ASV NASV NIV \ RANK: BNOTES: "What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?" : B 1739 ("father") : ASVn RSV : "What then shall we say that Abraham, our father, has found according to the flesh?" : K P 33 104 614 630 1241 1881 2495 Byz Lect syr(p,h) : KJV : The evidence for the text that is in braces reads "father" instead of "forefather." The word for "has found" was perhaps accidently omitted because the word before it begins with the same letter. Although it is possible that its omission from two manuscripts and that fact that it is found in two different places in the others means that it was not original, it is not the sort of word that a copyist was likely to add. The rare word "forefather" (found only here in the New Testament) was changed to the much more common word "father" (used of Abraham in Luke 16:24; Luke 16:30; John 8:53; Acts 7:2; and Romans 4:12). The second reading in the notes can be translated like the text reading.