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Split a/b -- R2
The majority reading, b, may avoid the clumsy repetition of the pronoun. On the other hand, incoherencies in the a attestation suggest that sometimes an inclination towards abundance prevailed.[1]
[1] Cf. BDR/BDF 278 on the tendency toward pleonastic usage of the pronoun in the NT. Barrett suggests that αὐτόν “may have been added in order to prevent even a moment’s doubt whether ἤγειρε was to be taken as transitive or intransitive” (183).