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Nichael Cramer nichael at sover.net
Wed Oct 20 11:12:44 EDT 1999


Jonathan Robie wrote:

> At 10:12 AM 10/20/99 -0400, Nichael Cramer wrote:
> 
> >    "Red and yellow, black and white,
> >        they are gracious in his sight..."
> 
> Hmmm my version reads "precious in his sight". Is this due to variant 
> readings, or is the same word simply being translated differently?

This is one of the Marcionist variants; for further information see the
discussion by Ehrman in his "Orthodox Corruption of Scripture".


Nichael


(And my apologies to the list for for starting all this by broadcasting an
intended private reply.)




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