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116 SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.
[2 PET. in. 10-11
his text faithfully; that from the twelfth century (to which 9, 12, 14,
belong), to the fourteenth and fifteenth (the age of 7, 11, and 13),
and
thence down to the present day (represented by 19), the true reading
of his text has survived in some of the better edited copies ;
but that
many later transcribers, finding the passage, so read, to be difficult,
attempted to make it clear (as we perceive that the scribe or corrector
of 2 did, and as White in later times has done) by the unwarranted
intrusion of the negative. In so doing, they acted not as copyists but
as editors ;
and the testimony of their transcripts has no more textual
weight than that of the margin of the Harkl. interpolated (as noted
above) by White.
The difficulty of the reading so attested is great, as is shown by the
many emendations of the original none convincing that have been
made by copyists or suggested by critics.* It is at least possible that
the Gr. uncials have rightly read, and that the Syr. of
Philox. rightly
retains, the disputed cvpe0ri