Re [B-Greek] Bad grammer in Rev??
Barry Hofstetter
nebarry at verizon.net
Wed Jan 12 20:04:10 EST 2005
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> On, 1/12/05 12:41:21 PM Pacific Standard Time
> Barry Hofstetter, nebarry at verizon.net, wrote,
>
>>> From: Remington186 at aol.com
>>> Date: 2005/01/12 Wed PM 03:30:25 EST
>>> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Bad grammer in Rev??
>
>>> Regarding this thread...
>>> We know that the first Erasmus Greek text had Revelation only as a
>>> translation of the Vulgate *back* into Greek by Desiderius himself
> [Gerhard >>Gerhards]...
>
>>Not quite, Remington -- it was only the last 4 verses of Revelation that he >
> retroverted -- the manuscript was actually broken off at that point.
> Erasmus' first >edition was 1515.
>
>>N.E. Barry Hofstetter
>
> What manuscript "was actually broken off at that point"?
I think I was doing the "over 40" thing writing from memory.
I just checked Metzger: it was actually the last 6 verses, not the last four,
and Metzger does not say "broken off" but that the final leaf is missing. He
claims that the ms of Revelation that Erasmus used was from the 12th century,
and that there were several other places in the ms that were so mixed up with
the "adjoining Greek commentary" that Erasmus also retroverted those passages
from the Vulgate as well as the final 6 verses.
Of course, this is no problem with modern critical editions, which have
available more and older manuscripts than did Erasmus.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Urban Theological Studies
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.cuts.edu
Visiting Faculty, Reformed Theological Seminary
Washington, D.C.
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