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)
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad
degree), what do I know?"
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