Acts 7:18 @evpV Ai;gupton# {C}

On the one hand, if the shorter reading be regarded as original, it is easy to see how Exodus 1:8 in the Septuagint (avne,sth de. basileu.j e[teroj evpV Ai;gupton( o]j ouvk h;|dei to.n VIwsh,f) would have influenced scribes to insert the phrase, evpV Ai;gupton. On the other hand, since the preceding verse in Acts speaks of the people of Israel being evn Aivgu,ptw|, it may be that the phrase was deleted as superfluous. Confronted with such a balance of probabilities, a majority of the Committee decided to retain the words in the text but to enclose them within square brackets.

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