Revelation 20:9 evk tou/ ouvranou/ {A}

Among the seven variant readings evk tou/ ouvranou/ has in its favor the preponderant weight of external evidence (A about 25 minuscules copbomss Tyconius Augustine Primasius al). The reading evk tou/ ouvranou/ avpo. tou/ qeou/ (046 and about 120 minuscules) appears to be an expansion introduced by copyists in imitation of Revelation 21:2 and Revelation 21:10. The other variants involve deliberate or accidental modifications of the preposition(s) or of the sequence of clauses in the expanded reading. In codex Sinaiticus the words from pu/r to li,mnhn of ver. Revelation 21:10 are supplied by aa, the lines having been accidentally omitted by a*.

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