10:9 Χριστον (Christ) {B}
There is strong external support
for Χριστον (‘Christ’; 𝔓46 06 012 and
the majority of minuscules) even though this is the harder reading, as the Old
Testament narrative does not mention Christ. On the other hand, Paul’s
identification of the rock as Christ in 1 Cor. 10:4 makes this consistent with
the context. (H. A. G. Houghton, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New
Testament: A Companion to the Sixth Edition of the United Bible Societies’
Greek New Testament [Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2025], 425)
