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2 PET. in. 1-5]
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 113
It is the proper equivalent of the Gr. (etAi/cpu/?} : as Clement R., ii. 9,
where the Syr. renders eiXi/cpti/eis by }u.2l (Bensly's Epp. of S. Clement
in Syr., p. -i).
The commoner word = }'r *.Zi
( /caAo9, so 3, 7, 8, 10, 13)
has naturally been substituted by transcribers, so early that it has
misled Arab., as well as Etzel, and all editors ;
and yet it is found in
no extant codex earlier than the xivth century (except probably 3,
which may be of xinth). As a rendering
it is quite inadequate. It is
to be noted here, that 1, which heads our list of witnesses to }^2ls,
has at this point been altered (whether by the scribe or by a later hand)
by interlining > : an instance like that noted in the Note (b) supr., on
i. 4, to show that whatever rehandling this codex may have undergone,
has been in the direction of divergence from, not of conformity to,
Harkl.
Ib., 2 and 4. In these verses we have two instances of the concurrence
of 1 and 2 in readings which are indefensible :
In ver. 2, the insertion by codd. 1, 2 of .Ol-^O after t^O> (
= rov
Kvpcov fjfjiwv Kal eov T^UOJV),
has no support from any Greek or other
authority, except from our codex 3 (which elsewhere often agrees
with the manuscripts of the earlier group).
It is an obvious interpolation
in the interests of orthodoxy, to be unhesitatingly rejected, though
attested by our best Syr. witness 1 and its associate 2.
In ver. 4, )AiiD (
= KaTeCTKevacrTcu), for )AoSsD ^Sta/xei/cr, as all Gr.) is
another misreading of 1 and 2, against the rest, but in this case an
accidental one, the words being closely alike to the eye.
3. For the participle >^oVn (
= e'/xTrai'^ovres) in this place, cp. the
parallel, Jud. 18, and footnotes on Gr. text of both. The two passages
seem to have been altered into verbal agreement in the Syr. of our
translator, but not of Harkl.
5. The omission of JJL.I after .OdX in this verse,
is a like case with
the substitution of *);*> in verse 1, being supported by the same
late codices (3, 7, 8, 10, 13) with Arab, and the Polyglots, and opposed
by the same better evidence (of 1, 2, 11, 12, 14, 18, 20, but not 19,
which here changes sides) reinforced by 9, also by Etzel (who passes
over to the earlier group). In this instance, Lee and the American
Editor correct the text (after
9 and 11).
Ib. The words ]*& r*^O are attested by all our codices, as by all
Gr. and other authorities ;
but Harkl. inserts them with the mark * .
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