Galatians 2:20
What I got from the reading:
This is not a passage I have ever heard a variant reading proposed on. I have always heard it as “by faith in the son of God….”
Again, the author makes note that a reading, which I am concluding would read “by faith in the God and Christ,” has support from the two oldest manuscripts as well as early Alexandrian support (which was previously established as a solid witness among manuscripts).
But the author does discuss two arguments against theou kai xristou:
1. Nowhere else in scripture does Paul speak of God as the object of our faith. To this, the author replies that Romans 4:24 does.
2. Likely when a scribe was copying tou huiou tou theo, his eye passed over the first article (and, I imagine it follows, first noun) and arrived at the second use of tou. To this, the author replies that it only explains the tou theou variant and not the others.
Ultimately, the author does support “son of God” as the likely reading, though he doesn’t want to throw this other option out.
As I was looking at what he was saying about parallels in 1 Tim. 5:21 and 2 Tim. 4:1, I was confused as to why the reading theou kai xristou would support Jesus as theos. These passages in the letters to Timothy do not speak of Jesus as theos, but speak of God and Christ Jesus as two separate persons.