Acts 27:41 u`po. th/j bi,aj @tw/n kuma,twn# {C}

While it may be true, as Ropes points out, that “the curtness of u`po. th/j bi,aj led to various expansions,” it is also true that the penchant of Alexandrian scribes for brevity of expression may account for the deletion of tw/n kuma,twn. Faced with these conflicting possibilities, the Committee decided to retain the words tw/n kuma,twn but to enclose them within square brackets in order to indicate doubt that they belong in the text. The singular readings of 629 and of Y are the result of scribal idiosyncrasies.

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