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Originally Posted by Scott Pitta
Metzger quote of the day. Textual Commentary, page 715 "The passage is absent from every know Greek manuscript except four, and these contain the passage in what appears to be a translation from a late recension of the Latin Vulgate."
ms. 61 ms. 88 ms. 629 ms. 635 You are welcome.
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While not exactly accurate, the evidence for the antiquity of the heavenly witnesses is not based on extant Greek manuscripts, so we won't go into the ms details . The fact that the verse dropped out of the Greek mss is not complicated, and the omitting of the verse was commented upon in the early centuries. Even Augustine bypassed the verse, as noted in a later Latin ms. The Vulgate Prologue makes the dropping very clear.
However, the heavenly witnesses verse left its trace in the solecism of the Greek text without the verse.
Steven Avery
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