[b-greek] Re: Secondary Witnesses?

From: dixonps@juno.com
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 13:34:51 EDT


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:40:37 -0400 Theodore H Mann <thmann@juno.com>
writes:
> Greetings:
>
> On p.554 in Metzger's "A Textual Commentary on the Greek NT,"
> dealing with Col.1:14, the following statement is made: "The Textus
> Receptus, following several secondary witnesses, interpolates from Eph.

> 1:7.... " What is meant by "secondary witnesses," and to what documents
is he
> referring? Are any of these witnesses Greek manuscripts?

Oh, probably nothing more than what he considers are not the
primary witnesses, the primary witnesses being the reading
of the oldest and/or shortest and/or those which best explain
the readings of the others, especially when supported by
differing textual families.

Paul Dixon

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