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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
The Harmony of the Gospels Introductory Essay (1887) by Professor M. B. Riddle. Eusebius of Caesarea (died AD 340) adopted a similar set of divisions for the gospels [like Ammonius’], adding to them numbers from 1 to 10, called "Canons," which indicate the parallelisms of the sections. These sections and canons are printed in Tischendorf's critical editions of the Greek Testament, and in some other editions.
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This looks accurate, and it looks like FZ plagiarized this information as a secondary source, his common method.
Matthew Riddle Brown (1836-1916)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Brown_Riddle
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The Harmony of the Gospels (c. 1888)
translated by the rev. s. d. f. salmond, d.d.,
free college, aberdeen
edited, with notes and introduction, by the rev. m. b. riddle, d.d.,
professor of new-testament exegesis, western theological seminary, allcgheny, pa.
Introductory Essay
By Professor M. B. Riddle, D.D.
https://books.google.com/books?id=QyU-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92
Also
https://books.google.com/books?id=v3X2nmtQ2jYC&pg=PT211
p. 93 has the text about the sections and canons and Tischendorf's edition.
Eusebius of Caesarea (died A.D. 340) adopted a similar set of divisions, adding to them numbers from I to 10, called "Canons," which indicate the parallelisms of the sections. These sections and canons are printed in Tischendorf's critical editions of the Greek Testament, and in some other editions.496 The influence of this system seems to have been great, but Eusebius often accepts a parallelism where there is really none whatever. Some of the sections are very brief, containing only part of a verse. Hence the tables of sections furnish no basis for estimating the matter common to two or more evangelists.
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This is a bit dated, since there is lots of ensuing scholarship in the next 130 years on the Eusebian sections. Nonetheless, the reference is solid.
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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
[“they appear as an appendix in the critical text of Nestle, clearly indicating that Matthew’s original manuscript of his gospel did not contained any trinitarian end”, Dr. Cruz.]
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FZ is conflating the two quotes.
And since we do not know:
a) who is "Dr. Cruz",
b) where he wrote this, and
c) what was his reasoning,
from a scholarship standpoint it is worthless. Note the trick of combining legitimate information (which does not say anything of special interest) with a shoddy sourced quote. And I doubt that Flaming can help on this, I tend to think he did not even check the Matthew Brown Riddle source. In other words, the trick may have been in his unreferenced and plagiarized source, rather than implemented by FZ.
None dare call this scholarship.
This is especially egregious since it is hard to see any way that the Eusebian sections can shed light on the exact text of Eusebius, much less that of Matthew. Plus, who is Dr. Cruz, if there is such a person commenting as above, and what language did he write, and what did he say?
Steven Avery