Re: Revelation 1:11

From: Steven Craig Miller (scmiller@www.plantnet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 10:19:18 EST


To: Grant Polle,

<< Revelation 1:11: "Saying: 'What you see write in a scroll and send it to the seven congregations, in Ephesus and in Smyrna and in Pergamum and in Thyatira and in Sardis and in Philadelphia and in Laodicea." But according to other translation, although varying in the previous rendering, they add in the beginning of the scripture "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." My question: "What is the basis for the addition or what is the basis for the removal as many translations have done?" >>

There are only three pre-ninth century Greek MSS which attest to this passage, and all three of them omit the phrase "I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last." In addition, many later MSS and versions also omit. Hodges & Farstad's "Majority" text omits, and Robinson & Pierpont's "Byzatine/Majority" text omits. Thus whether one bases one's text largely on pre-ninth century MSS, or whether one bases one's text on the Majority of Greek MSS, either way, this phrase should be omitted.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller@www.plantnet.com
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