"If the critical scholars are correct"
_The Byzantine Text-Type and New Testament Textual Criticism_ by Harry Sturz (1984), 305pp., 61-62
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List I (see pages 145-159) displays some 150 distinctively Byzantine readings now found to have early Egyptian papyri supporting them. Distinctively Byzantine readings are readings which are supported by the bulk of the later manuscripts but which at the same time are opposed (or not supported) by the principal manuscripts and witnesses to the Alexandrian and Western texts.
Hort, cited on 63:
"before the middle of the third century, at the very earliest, we have no historical signs of the existence of readings, conflate or other, that are marked as distinctively Syrian by the want of attestation from groups of documents which have preserved the other ancient forms of text"
Sturz comments, "The support of distinctive Byzantine readings by early Egyptian papyri has provided proof that WH were wrong at this point."
Sturz on 130: "Contrary to what WH held, _distinctively Byzantine readings of every kind have been shown to be early_."
_The Byzantine Text-Type and New Testament Textual Criticism_ by Harry Sturz (1984), 305pp., 61-62
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0840749589/
List I (see pages 145-159) displays some 150 distinctively Byzantine readings now found to have early Egyptian papyri supporting them. Distinctively Byzantine readings are readings which are supported by the bulk of the later manuscripts but which at the same time are opposed (or not supported) by the principal manuscripts and witnesses to the Alexandrian and Western texts.
Hort, cited on 63:
"before the middle of the third century, at the very earliest, we have no historical signs of the existence of readings, conflate or other, that are marked as distinctively Syrian by the want of attestation from groups of documents which have preserved the other ancient forms of text"
Sturz comments, "The support of distinctive Byzantine readings by early Egyptian papyri has provided proof that WH were wrong at this point."
Sturz on 130: "Contrary to what WH held, _distinctively Byzantine readings of every kind have been shown to be early_."