2 Thess. iii.
5. A note of the
Benedictine Editors on this passage says: “It must be
admitted that these words are not found in the sacred text and
are wanting in three manuscripts of this work. Moreover, in
the Regius Quintus they are only inserted by a second
hand, but since they are shortly afterwards repeated by Basil, as
though taken from the sacred context, I am unwilling to delete
them, and it is more probable that they were withdrawn from the
manuscripts from which they are wanting because they were not
found in the apostle, then added, without any reason at all, to
the manuscripts in which they occur.”