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110 SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.
[2 PET. n. 17-19
reading has passed into most editions ;
but Lee has corrected it (from
9), and the American editor (from 11). No trace of e ai/a>0cv appears
in any Greek authority, or in any version.
(6)
In ver. 18, with equal confidence and no less preponderance
of authority, we adopt the correction |*jJQ.t (
= u7re/ooyKa), attested by
the same Syr. codices as the previous instance (except that 11 joins the
later ones 7, 8, 10, and the Polyglot text). Etzel's also goes with these
latter; but Arab, changes places with it, and supports the older text.
So also Harkl. (with vTTTrepoy/ca [sic]
in marg.). The misreading JQjaQ..
,
which Pococke's text and the Polyglots have thus introduced into
the editions (except that of Lee, which follows 9 ;
but including the
American), represents yeXwra (or yeAoioi/), a word quite inappropriate
here, and known neither to any Greek authority or any translator;
while luJcL. is a proper equivalent for the vTre'/aoy/ca of all Greek texts,
as appears from the rendering in both versions of the same word where
it recurs in the parallel passage of Jude (ver. 16) by the cognate
]A*kaJLi. By this latter word the vTrepoy/ca of Deut. xxx. 11 (LXX),
is rendered in the Syr.-Hxp. version [see Masius, Syrorum Peculium,
s.v. **)J_i ].
This is another signal instance of simultaneous variation
in both versions, in rendering of a recurring word, as in case of
avvev(j)xvpvoL (see last Note supr. on ver. 13).
Thus in these two notable instances our text as emended after our
best codices agrees with Harkl.
all
But it would be a mere perversion of
the facts to suggest that these codices borrowed either reading as a
correction from Harkl., the true inference being that Harkl., itself
the earliest witness to the text of our version, on which it is based, here
confirms the testimony of the earliest extant manuscripts of that text.
18. The adject. Aa'i may (as suggested in note to Gr. text, p. 64)
represent the alternative reading do-eXyeias (gen. sing., "lusts of
wantonness" for "wanton lusts"). But the suspicion occurs that the
translator, reading with best Greek text do-eAyeuus, may have mistaken
it for a dat. plur. feminine from
19. As between the rival readings OlliO and Ol (after 3]) in
this verse, there arises no doubt touching the Greek text ;
for *AJ] > OOL^
OllLD \D] and Ol^ \D] AJ*|> OOL^ equally represent w TIS fJTrrjTai (as
all Gr. authorities read). In this connexion Ol-^ (as read by 1 and 2,