2 Thessalonians 2:3

2 Thessalonians 2:3 avnomi,aj {B}

Did the apostle write “man of sin,” as most witnesses read, or “man of lawlessness,” as a B 81 88^mg 1739 cop^{sa, bo} arm Marcion Tertullian and others attest? Despite the broader external testimony supporting a`marti,aj (witnesses from each of three text-types: A; D G it vg; K L P most minuscules), on the whole it appears that the early Alexandrian witnesses preserve the original reading, avnomi,aj, a word rarely used by Paul, which was altered by copyists to the much more frequently used word, a`marti,aj. Furthermore, ga.r … avnomi,aj in ver. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 seems to presuppose avnomi,aj here.