Instead of the reading
of the Benedictine and earlier editions, εἰ δὲ δεῖ
καὶ ὥς τινες
ἐξηγοῦνται
τοῦτο
εἰπεῖν, the mss. Roe and Casaubon combine δει και ως
into the one word δικαιως, which is
probably the right reading. Something, however, is still wanted
to complete the construction, and Petrus Siculus (circ.
a.d. 870) who quotes the passage in his
History of the Manichees, boldly conjectures ἔστι καὶ
οὕτως
εἰπεῖν. A simpler
emendation would be—εἰ
δὲ δικαίως
τινὲς
ἐξηγοῦνται,
δεῖ τουτο
εἰπεῖν—which both
completes the construction and explains the reading δεῖ καὶ
ὡς.