A SUMMARY OF THE ISSUES CURROUNDING EGW EIMI IN JOHN 8:58

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Thu Sep 3 16:22:52 EDT 1998


On Wed  2 Sep 98 (21:14:47), jonathan at texcel.no wrote:
> Curious, the LXX in my Gramcord says EGW EIMI EGW EIMI hO KURIOS. I
> wonder why this differs from Brenton if there are, as you say, no
> variant readings.

 Jonathan:

 As Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser". (Lewis Carroll, /Alice in
 Wonderland/).

 I don't think it affects the exegesis in any material way. The opposite
 and contrary vice to the vice of Dittography is Haplography. If one
 scribe is dictating Scriptures to a whole roomful of writing scribes,
 sometimes a word or phrase is duplicated; sometimes omitted. It happens.

 Ben
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