διʼ ὧν. Mayor and Schmeidel, against the evidence of nearly all manuscripts, read διʼ ὅν. This is rendered unnecessary (1) if the above rendering of ἐξ ὕδατος κ. τ. λ. is taken, and the plural διʼ ὧν refers to the two waters. διʼ ὅν would refer to λόγῳ alone, or (2) if διʼ ὧν relers to ὑδάτων and λόγῳ taken together, which would in some ways suit the sense of the whole passage better. The false teachers had ignored the agency of the Divine word. κατακλυσθείς; ἁπ. λεγ. in N.T.; found several times in P.Tebt. e.g. 54 17 ff (B.C. 86) [ὥστε] … συμβεβηκότων κατακλυσθῆναι. “So that in consequence of what happened, it was flooded”; 56 5 f (late ii. B.C.) γείν [ωσ] κε δὲ περὶ τοῦ κατακεκλῦσθαι τὸ πεδίον “but know about our plain having been inundated”.

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