09-04-2012, 04:59 AM
Quote:What if, for example, the PeshittA turns out to have Hebrews 2:9 as a corrupted variant (aka, deliberate changes in view of the creed of Ephesus in 431)?
Quote:As you known Origen live from late 2nd century to mid 3rd century (185 AD - 254 AD). Origen died 132 years before Nestorius (386 AD - 451 AD) was born. So the idea that Hebrews 2:9 is a Nestorian modification to Western manuscripts is wrong.
Tex, brings up the important, but little known fact, that Hebrews 2:9, as it reads in The Eastern Peshitta, predates the early 430s A.D. controversy over the nature of the Messiah a number of centuries...to at least the time before Origen quotes it's reading, as being the majority Greek reading that he knew, indicating that the other reading was a minority reading in "some" copies as he reveals, but which he did not favor in his application of the verse.