Manuscript Source for 1 John 5:8

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Sep 12 19:15:48 EDT 2000


At 20:05 12/09/00, Theodore H Mann wrote:

>In his Textual Commentary, Metzger mentions that 1 Jn.5:8 is to be found
>as "a variant reading added to a 10th-century manuscript in the Bodleian
>Library at Oxford."  Does anyone know the exact identity of this
>manuscript, and how much later the variant was added?  I assume this was
>a hand-written entry, yes?  Much appreciated.

Ted:
The answer to your query is to be found in Appendix 4 of:
Brown, Raymond E. The Epistles of John. Anchor Bible vol. 30. New York: 
Doubleday, 1982.

He lists the eight sources of the Johannine Comma, numbered " according to 
the Gregory enumeration " -- sixth in the list is:
221vl  a variant reading added to a 10th-century manuscript in the Bodleian
Library at Oxford.

Just as a matter of local pride <g>, first in the list is this:

" 61:  The Codex Montfortianus ( Britannicus ) an early sixteenth century 
MS. at Trinity College Dublin. This codex was copied from an earlier 
Lincoln (Oxford ) Cddex ( 326) that did not have the Comma. Insertions 
elsewhere in Montfortian have been retroverted from the Latin "

Regards
Maurice





Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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