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Originally Posted by Chapel-Hill-Coug

Manuscript L (which dates to the 8th century) is the only known manuscript to include the definite article in that passage. Curiously, the variant is not mentioned either in the critical apparatus or the variae lectiones minores in the Nestle Aland Greek NT (the blue one). But if it had been noticed the editors probably decided that it was obviously added and that the reading had no claim to antiquity. If there had been any theological controversy surrounding that article in antiquity, we'd probably see evidence of it in older mss, IMO.

Wonderful. Thanks, CHC!