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2 Peter 1:4

2 Peter 1:4 ti,mia kai. me,gista h`mi/n evpagge,lmata

The order of words varies greatly:

(a) ti,mia kai. me,gista evpagge,lmata h`mi/n

î72.

(b) ti,mia kai. me,gista h`mi/n evp)

B 1 206 255 429 489 614 1611 1898 2143.

(c) ti,mia h`mi/n kai. me,gista evp)

a K L 0142 many minuscules.

(d) me,gista kai. ti,mia h`mi/n evp)

C P (u`mi/n A; u`mw/n Y) 5 33 69 81 88 104 218 307 326 441 623 1175 1739 2298 vg syrph, h copsa, bo.

(e) me,gista h`mi/n kai. ti,mia evp)

several minuscules and Textus Receptus.

The reading that best explains the origin of the others appears to be (b). A desire to relate the pronoun more closely either to the verb or to ti,mia resulted in reading (a) on the one hand, and readings (c) and (d) on the other. The sequence of me,gista and ti,mia in (d) and (e) may have originated in an accidental or deliberate omission of ti,mia kai, and its later insertion from the margin. The readings u`mi/n of A and u`mw/n of Y have been conformed to the following ge,nhsqe.

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