[B-Greek] I am new to this website, and I have a question concerningtextual critical matters. R.C. H. Lenski
Tony Costa
tmcos at rogers.com
Wed Feb 4 20:06:48 EST 2004
David, the concept of people being born of God is a Johanine concept that
appears throughout the Fourth Gospel (Ch.3) for istance, being "born again"
or "born from above", but appears also in the first letter of John (eg. 1
John 5:1). Terms such as "born again/from above", "born of God" appear to be
synonymous terms. Thus John 1:13 harmonizes well with other passages in the
Johanine corpus. The readings in Tertullian and Irenaeus are interesting,
but differ from the MSS. Bets regards,
Tony Costa
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Subject: [B-Greek] I am new to this website, and I have a question
concerningtextual critical matters. R.C. H. Lenski
> I am new to this website, and I have a question concerning textual
> critical matters. R.C. H. Lenski, among others, asserts that the
> reading of John 1:13 (hOI OUK . . . EGENNHQHSAN) was corrupted by the
> Valentinian Gnostics around 140 A.D. His statement backing this is that
> Terullian and Irenaeus are two ancient witnesses supporting the reading
> of hOS OUK . . . EGENNHQH. The problem with this statement, however is
> that P66, P75, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus all disagree with him. In fact,
> Bruce Metzger, in his Textual Commentary says that all the Greek
> manuscripts have the former rendering (Metzger also lists all the people
> who hold to this variant). I realize that these people are wanting to
> preserve the doctrine of the virgin birth, but when all the Greek
> manuscripts speak contrary to their view how can they hold to such a
> view? Thank you very much.
>
> David Fahrenthold
> Student, Dallas Baptist University
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