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Originally Posted by S.C.Carlson
I'm not sure that a textual solution for this variant (either by conflation or from a primitive text) is the way to go here, especially considering the brevity and popularity of the phrase as a description of Jesus Christ. After all, scribes added son of God to Mark 1:1, and so it seems to me that the same instinct to aggrandize Jesus is at work in Victorinus as well.
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I am not certain I understand your point, or perhaps that you understood mine. What I meant was that I think Victorinus himself struck out on his own here and conflated Matthew and Luke. I did not mean to say or imply that his exemplar already had the conflation, though of course that is a possibility.
Ben.