05-02-2004, 03:33 PM
The one about leaving the old reading alone? Yea probably so, Heh.
I understand the differences of the outreach of Jesus's ministry to a small degree. Much to learn still.
Ephrem was a very respected individual within his culture of his day, highly educated, and very intellegent. I can't dismiss what he would say as false just because he is of the western arena. If he is quoting from Tatian, then I can get a rather reliable witness to the faithfulness in the text he used, because of his character. I can't just write him off cause he was of the western area. That's a little extreme.
No, what I was getting at was not just sections and small additions, that was happening, we know that. I was talking about the complete rewrites of sections that the western text exhibits at times, not just additions in small areas. Even though the OS is from your view a Greek background, it still has the idiomatic Semetic expression, it is still a Semetic form. Don't know what it's original was, yet it is Semetic, very poorly translated and copied, as you have shown us.
Many answers I guess that are lost in history, huh?
I understand the differences of the outreach of Jesus's ministry to a small degree. Much to learn still.
Ephrem was a very respected individual within his culture of his day, highly educated, and very intellegent. I can't dismiss what he would say as false just because he is of the western arena. If he is quoting from Tatian, then I can get a rather reliable witness to the faithfulness in the text he used, because of his character. I can't just write him off cause he was of the western area. That's a little extreme.
Quote:You say that's it's not in human nature to add, rather you would have expected people to subtract instead. But that is completely inaccurate, as the story of the woman taken in adultery shows. People very many times ADD stories rather than subtract.
No, what I was getting at was not just sections and small additions, that was happening, we know that. I was talking about the complete rewrites of sections that the western text exhibits at times, not just additions in small areas. Even though the OS is from your view a Greek background, it still has the idiomatic Semetic expression, it is still a Semetic form. Don't know what it's original was, yet it is Semetic, very poorly translated and copied, as you have shown us.
Many answers I guess that are lost in history, huh?