The two following variations strive to overcome the difficulty by omission;
(5) του θεου,
the reading of D by a second hand, of P, 37, 67**, 71, 80, 116.
(6) του χριϲτου,
the reading of Euthalius in Tischendorf’s MS; but Tischendorf adds the caution ‘sed non satis apparet’.
(c) by amplification;
All the remaining readings are attempts to remedy the test by amplification. They fall into two classes; those which insert πατρός so as to make Χριστοῦ dependent on it, (7), (8), and those which separate Θεοῦ from Χριστοῦ by the interposition of a καί, (9), (10), (11).
(i) by inserting πατρός to govern Χριστοῦ;
(7) του θεου πατροϲ χριϲτου,
the reading of א (by the first hand). Tischendorf also adds bscr* and oscr; but I read Scrivener’s collations differently (Cod. Aug. p. 506): or