Fw: Re: Secondary Witnesses?

Rob Matlack rmatlack at juno.com
Tue Sep 12 18:39:19 EDT 2000


Sorry.. it was 1st edition.  :-/

Rob Matlack
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:45:47 -0400 Theodore H Mann <thmann at juno.com>
writes:
> Regarding Col.1:14 (DIA TOU hAIMATOS AUTOU)
> 
> Hi Rob:
> 
> (1) The Stephanus 1550 does indeed contain DIA TOU hAIMATOS AUTOU, 
> but that doesn't mean it enjoyed majority status (not that that's 
> what you are saying).  I doubt enough manuscripts were available to 
> Stephanus and others at that time to make that kind of 
> determination, even if they had thought to do so.
> (2) My Metzger Textual Commentary is the 2nd edition, and does deal 
> with this interpolation.  That Metzger drops it in the 3rd edition 
> may indicate the opposite of what you suggest.  (Isn't the 3rd 
> edition the last one off the press, or has another one been 
> published?)
> 
> Best.
> 
> Ted Mann
> thmann at juno.com
> 
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:44:29 -0500 Rob Matlack <rmatlack at juno.com> 
> writes:
> 
> > I have a comment and a question.  
> 
> >Comment: The statement, "A half dozen out of about 5,000 would, I 
> think, be considered secondary regardless of >one's textual 
> position--except  for the fact that it shows up in the TR! (I.e., 
> both critical text and majority text scholars >would call it 
> secondary.)" is interesting. From BibleWorks it appears that 
> Robinson and Pierpont DO include it in their >majority text so they 
> must have thought it had  sufficient support. Also from BW it 
> appears that Stephanus' text of 1550  >had it. I checked my hard 
> copy of Hodges and Farstad and they omit it.
> > 
> > Question: My copy of "A Textual Commentary on the Greek NT" (3rd 
> edition) does not address it. If it was not >considered important 
> then, why does an apparently more recent edition address it? It 
> seems that the text 
> > over the years has moved more toward the enclusion of majority 
> readings that  were at one time ignored or >completely rejected.
> > 
> > Rob Matlack
> > 620 E. 5th St., Minneapolis, KS 67467
> > RMatlack at juno.com      Hm: 785-392-2865   Church: 785-392-2089
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