2 Thessalonians 1

2 Thessalonians 1:2 patro.j @h`mw/n# kai. kuri,ou {C}

The clause with avpo, occurs in all the Pauline letters except 1 Thessalonians, and except in Galatians 1:3, where the evidence is divided, h`mw/n always stands after patro,j. In the present verse it is difficult to decide whether the pronoun was present originally but was later omitted by copyists for stylistic reasons (cf. ver. 2 Thessalonians 1:1 patri. h`mw/n), or whether the word, originally absent, was later added by copyists in imitation of the stereotyped formula. In order to represent the balance of probabilities, a majority of the Committee decided to include the word in the text, but to enclose it within square brackets. The sub-singular readings of syr^{p, pal} and cop^{sa, bo} are doubtless intra-versional variants.