2 Peter 2:4

2 Peter 2:4 seirai/j {C}

The textual evidence is singularly evenly balanced between seirai/j and siroi/j. The latter reading, despite its being supported by a A B C 81^vid cop^sa al, was regarded by the Committee as a correction (made, perhaps, in Egypt where siro,j was current) of the original reading seirai/j. If, as is generally supposed, 2 Peter depends in part upon Jude, the author of the former appears to have substituted the more elegant word seirai/j for the commonplace desmoi/j of Jude 1:6. In any case, the reading adopted for the text is both the oldest (it is read by î⁷²) and the most widespread, being supported by many versional and patristic witnesses, as well as by almost all minuscules.