[B-Greek] Re: John 1:24

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 8 13:37:14 EST 2003


At 5:59 PM +0100 12/8/03, Wieland Willker wrote:
>Note the Majority reading:
>
>KAI OI APESTALMENOI HSAN EK TWN FARISAIWN.

which means no more, I think, than that later scribes failed to understand
the partitive usage in the construction and so altered the text so that it
would suit their grammatical expectations.
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Carl W. Conrad
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