05-14-2004, 04:54 PM
No Paul, your right, you didn't, but you jumped on the bandwagon when Mister Dana mentioned it, and was in total agreement with him. Yuri said what he said in a very mature, elquoent manner so as not to offend anyone, and all 3 of you jumped at the possibility of it being discrimination.
Why Paul, your so kind! Thanks for trying to make me believe something else outside of what things really are.
Uhhh Paul? Why are there some word for word Peshitta readings in Ephrems commentary and not strickly western text readings????
Interesting huh?
You are gonna actually try to tell me, actually lie to me, and tell me that the evidence that can be attributed to Tatian's Diatesseron doesn't show tampering on the part of someone out of the east in this arabic manuscript??
Oh, Oh, Oh,,.....also the known word for word Peshitta readings in it were strickly coincedence also just like the OS ones??
Since we have a definete case here of someone taking an "eastern" manuscript and doctoring it to prove priority of the Peshitta text, what else was doctored?? How about Ol' Mar Arphrahat? They already have instances where historical references were standardized to the received text in the greek, why not the peshitta?
Oh, and I won't buy the bit about an eastern person not doing this for fear of his bowels being cut out and roasted now, in light of these new events.
Quote:For the sake of argument, let's just agree that St. Ephraem (of Edessa in Byzantium) used some western harmony exclusively. OK - for the sake of argument, I'm willing to just give you that.
Why Paul, your so kind! Thanks for trying to make me believe something else outside of what things really are.
Uhhh Paul? Why are there some word for word Peshitta readings in Ephrems commentary and not strickly western text readings????
Interesting huh?
You are gonna actually try to tell me, actually lie to me, and tell me that the evidence that can be attributed to Tatian's Diatesseron doesn't show tampering on the part of someone out of the east in this arabic manuscript??
Oh, Oh, Oh,,.....also the known word for word Peshitta readings in it were strickly coincedence also just like the OS ones??
Since we have a definete case here of someone taking an "eastern" manuscript and doctoring it to prove priority of the Peshitta text, what else was doctored?? How about Ol' Mar Arphrahat? They already have instances where historical references were standardized to the received text in the greek, why not the peshitta?
Oh, and I won't buy the bit about an eastern person not doing this for fear of his bowels being cut out and roasted now, in light of these new events.