Luke 23:43 in B

Dave Washburn dwashbur at nyx.net
Tue Jun 5 10:35:46 EDT 2001


After I read the post about the suggested comma in Codex 
Vaticanus (B), I asked my friends on the Textual Criticism list 
about it.  I received a response from a professional textual critic in 
Germany who spends more time with the manuscripts and their 
facsimiles than any of us here ever will.  Here is his response:

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Dave Washburn wrote:
> Someone on another list just said that the original hand of B 
(brown
> ink) has a comma in the much-disputed passage Luke 23:43 ("I 
tell
> you today," vs. "I tell you, today"). I had always understood that
> the original hand of B didn't have any such marks, that the
> accents, punctuation etc. were added by a later hand. Did I hear
> wrong?

I have looked at it in the facsimile and it's correct that there is a
brown dot there, but
I would term it "of unknown origin". It is most probably only a blot.
There is no extra
space between the letters which one would expect if this is a 
comma. I
would not base
anything on this.



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