2 Peter 2:18

2 Peter 2:18 ovli,gwj {A}

Among the palaeographically similar readings (oligwc@ ontwc@ ontac), ovli,gwj, a rare word that occurs nowhere else in the New Testament or the Septuagint (although Aquila has it in Isaiah 10:7), appears to be original. As regards external evidence, ovli,gwj is supported by representatives of both the Alexandrian and the Western types of text (î⁷² A B Y 33 vg syr^{ph, h} cop^{sa, bo} Jerome Augustine Bede). As regards transcriptional probability, since copyists were more likely to substitute the familiar word for the unfamiliar than the reverse, o;ntwj is far more likely to be secondary than ovli,gwj. Finally, as regards intrinsic probability, o;ntwj seems to involve a self-contradiction after delea,zousin, and o;ntaj (read by several minuscules, including 181 489 1241 1881) is utterly inappropriate with avpofeu,gontaj.