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INTRODUCTION
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tion, lacking all support and unsuited to the context. It cannot be
accepted as representing a variant in the Greek, and is to be dismissed
as an instance of a very common mistake into which Syriac scribes are
notoriously apt to fall,* of writing _^ after (or before, or for) 1, to
which it is so similar in form.
(c) 2 Pet. ii. 17 (ve\
B
= (all Greek) vTrepoy/ca )
=
(.
yeXotoi/ (unattested).
This is an example exactly parallel to (a), (6),
and (c).
(e) 2 Pet. iii. 1 (Stcyeipw rrjv tlKiKpLvr) Siavoiav).
With A we read \*2im |
c
Vn^a* of B
= (all Greek) et'At/cpi^ 5 \ = KaXrjv (uuattested),
(jO
With A we read
Another like example.
^ Joh. 10 (Aoyois Trovrjpois ^Avapcov i^/xas).
>Aco
^
/-
^QD of B
= (all Greek) \vapw j
f or < = TTOLWV (unattested).
A sixth example; all of these being
) V.
[or 7r7K7TTOyMO'OSj
cases in which the Greek
evidence is unanimous, and all the MSS of A-group agree with it.
To these may be added another, in which also the Greek evidence is
unanimous, but the A-MSS, though
fully agreed among themselves.
unanimous as against
B, are not
(#) Jud. 7 (TrpoKtwrai Sety/xa TTU/DOS).
With A we read 1>QJ? lA^Q>jZ|
C fao) /U**2
= (all Greek) Sety/xa vrvpos) ( = wn> nfip (unattested).
* See e.g., Matth. 1 21, where the Curetonian makes, while Peshitta and
Sinaitic avoid, the same mistake between these words.