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2 PET. m. 10] SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 115
joins them; while 9 goes over to the graecized .3Q&^>
ancj 12
similarly (|| a^^)- ^ tne whole number, 18 alone agrees in both
places with Harkl. ;
the rest in ver. 12 give fcoOQ^cbl (except 7, 8, 10,
which omit). Possibly the scribes of the copies which thus vary may
have intended by so doing to correct the apparently tautologous repetition
in ver. 12 of the words of ver. 10.
They may have meant to suggest
that the oroi^eta
in one place (tcODO^Cp)) were to be understood as
" the heavenly bodies " (as often in Syr. ; rarely in late Gr.), while the
o-roixeia
in the other (U-SQ^^) were " the elements," according to the
legitimate meaning of the word. But it is not to be supposed that the
translator had any thought of such distinction, though
it
may have
been introduced by his transcribers. On the whole,
accept ICQDQ^SD!
i*1 both verses.
it seems best to
Ib. All texts of Philox. here attest tvptOrjvcTai (as read by N B K P
and other authorities), by rendering -KkDA1 (11, 13, 14, 20,
supported by the margin of Harkl. (a),
which offers it
alternative for the j,jO|2 >x.ifT) of its text ( = /cara/carJcrcTai,
as read
by A and most Greek cursives; see notes on Syr. and Gr. texts, in loc.).
But our codices, even those of the earlier group, are divided as to omitting
or inserting the negative (J before the verb. For '
its omission,
we have 1, 2, and 12, with the later but carefully edited 7, 11, 13, reinforced
by 18 and 19, and confirmed (as above) by the Harkl. note :
while 9 and 14, and also 20, here siding with 3, 8, 10, Etzel, and the
Polyglots, are for its insertion. But the Arab, translator by throwing
his weight into the scale with 1, 2, and 12, turns the balance in favour
of the affirmative reading, in agreement with the Gr. witnesses for
evptOrjo-cTai, none of which prefixes to it ov^.
It is to be noted that
in 2 (an estrangela codex), |J is inserted (prima manu?) before the
verb, in cursive character clearly by an afterthought. In 7, room
seems to have been intentionally left by the scribe for like interpolation.
Likewise White, in his edition of Harkl., prints a conjectural
[|J] before the verb where it appears on the margin. The conclusions
to which these facts lead are : that Philox. represents a Greek text
which with N B, &c. (as above) read ev/ae^o-crat (without ovx) j
that he
rendered it *j*2A*2 accordingly, without ]] ;
that the copies of his
version used by Harkl. in the second decade of the seventh century,
and by the Arab, translator early (probably) in the ninth, preserved