Note 113 — Chapter XXXII · THE PERSONS DENOUNCED IN THE EPISTLE. ITS RELATION TO 2 PETER.
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The insertion of the word "God" into the authorities followed in the Authorized Version is one of the few instances in which it is possible that the Greek text of the N.T. has been corrupted in the interests of orthodoxy.
[114] See the author's Epistles of St. John in the Cambridge Greek Testament, pp. xx-xxix and 160-162.
[115] N.T. Commentary for English Readers, edited by Bishop Ellicott (Cassell and Co. 1879), iii., p. 506.