Acts 7:36

Acts 7:36 gh|/ Aivgu,ptw|

The reading gh|/ Aivgu,ptou (î⁷⁴ D^gr 1611 1739 vg syr^{p, h} al) is obviously a correction of gh|/ Aivgu,ptw| (a A E N P 81 many minuscules). The witnesses of both readings, however, unite in their support of gh|/ against th|/, which is read by B C 38 69 94 255 307 it^d cop^sa. The Septuagint text at Exodus 7:3, to which the present passage seems to allude, reads gh|/. Although normally the Committee preferred readings that depart from the Septuagint, in this case the palacographical possibility that scribes misread gyaiguptw for the more usual (and therefore more to be expected) tyaiguptw was regarded as the probable explanation for the emergence of scattered witnesses attesting th|/. A few secondary witnesses (4 122* 181 241 460 1898 2180) omit both gh|/ and th|/, reading simply Aivgu,ptw|.