2 Peter 2:13

2 Peter 2:13 avdikou,menoi {B}

The reading avdikou,menoi, which is supported by early and diversified witnesses (î⁷² a* B P Y 1175 1852 syr^ph arm), involves a very rare construction with misqo,n, and therefore copyists introduced the less objectionable komiou,menoi (a^c A C K 049 most minuscules vg syr^h cop^{sa, bo} eth Speculum). The author seems to have tolerated the unusual grammatical construction in the interest of contriving a play on the words avdikou,menoi … avdiki,aj (“defrauded of the hire of fraud,” J. B. Mayor, Com., p. cxcvi; see also Schrenk in Kittel’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, I, pp. 156 f. and Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker, s.v. avdike,w, at end).