Alternative Title: homoioteleuton
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textual criticism of Bible
Homoeoteleuton occurs when two separate phrases or lines have identical endings and the copyist’s eye slips from one to the other and omits the intervening words. A comparison of the Masoretic text I Samuel, chapter 14 verse 41, with the Septuagint and the Vulgate versions clearly identifies such an aberration.
...do not pray that thou shouldst take them from the evil one.” This is obviously a reading that omitted the words between two identical ends of lines— i.e., an error due to homoioteleuton (similar ending of lines).