Can anyone tell me what the word is in Ephesians 6:12 that is sometimes translated "principalities"?

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My new web site is aramaicnt.net.
Whoever updates the links might want to make the change to aramaicnt.com which is now defunct.

Thanks much!

Dave

My new web site is aramaicnt.net.
Whoever updates the links might want to make the change to aramaicnt.com which is now defunct.

Thanks much!

Dave

Hello all. It's been a long time since I posted here. I used to visit here many years ago. I just remembered my password and had been unable to reset it or rejoin, for some reason.
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Hebrew Code in Peshitta NT

“I AM JEHOVAH” (AHIaH YeHoWaH) code in John 20:27-30 in Hebrew.

Please notice the attached photo of the Aramaic passage at the top.

 
27  And he said to Thomas: Reach hither thy finger, and look at my hands; and reach out thy hand and extend it to my side: and be not incredulous, but believing.
28  And Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God!
29  Jesus said to him: Now, when thou hast seen me, thou believest: blessed are they, who have not seen me, yet believe.
30  And many other signs did Jesus before his disciples, which are not written in this book.

 
The Blue letters, starting with the third Alap a in verse 30, counting backward 14 letters to the end of verse 29, 14 letters takes you to He h, 5th letter from the end of the verse, and another 14 letters back, we have Yod y, and so on, to He h spells hyha–“I Am”. Continuing back 14 letters four more times gives hwhy-“Yahweh”. This is by far the lowest skip rate at which the Hebrew sentence occurs in The 3 editions of The Peshitta NT tested, including The Khabouris ms.. The next highest is 995. One other phrase, “I am The Living God, The Life” –“Ena na Khayay”, has a low skip of 190; all others of the ELS’s with skips greater than 1 have much higher skip rates.
The Khabouris has no skip rate ELS’s lower than 522, so no verses close together have any ELS’s like this one, among the 17 phrases tested.
What is most interesting is the context of the passage, in which our resurrected Lord appears to Thomas, showing him his hands and side, and Thomas falls down and exclaims to Yeshua: “My Lord and my God!”


The words in which the highlighted code letters are found are translated: “Believing, also answered Him – Jesus. ‘You believed those & believe the signs.’ ”
 
Even the words in which the code letters are found spell out a coherent message about the faith in The Messiah Yeshua. Put in good English, it says, “And Jesus answered the believer: “You have believed those things; believe also the signs.’”
 
By itself, the phrase has a 1 in 78 chance of occurring in the Peshitta text. What is remarkable about it is the context in which it occurs in that text and the fact that there is a coherent message in the very words in which the code letters are found which is consistent also with the code phrase (“I AM Yahweh”) and the passage of scripture.
The code was found with the software program “Codefinder”, and searched three editions of the Peshitta NT. The code occurs in the Eastern & 1905 critical Peshitta (a Western edition). The Khabouris is an Eastern manuscript of the 12th century, apparently translated from a mid-4th century manuscript, according to the scribe who copied the manuscript. The Khabouris ms. does not contain the above code.
 
While the probability that this code would occur in the Peshitta NT is a modest 1 in 78, the probability statistic for this statement occurring in the short passage of the four verses of John 20:27-30, which is about our risen Lord appearing to Thomas and showing him his hands and feet and side, whereupon Thomas exclaims, “my Lord and my God!”, and falls down and worships Him- that probability Codefinder itself computes to be 4 chances out of a million, or one out of 250,000!
 
 Try to find a similar code message of this length in the context of four verses with the same context as the coded message such as this one in John 20 ("I AM YeHoWaH") where Thomas worships and confesses Jesus to be his Lord and his God. Only the Peshitta text (1905 edition & the Eastern text) contains this. The Khabouris manuscript, however, does not have it.
 
Here is the code matrix in John 20:27-30 in the 1905 Syriac Bible (Peshitta) which I translated in my Original Aramaic New Testament in Plain English:    

   
Hebrew Code in Peshitta NT

“I AM JEHOVAH” (AHIaH YeHoWaH) code in John 20:27-30 in Hebrew.

Please notice the attached photo of the Aramaic passage at the bottom.

 
27  And he said to Thomas: Reach hither thy finger, and look at my hands; and reach out thy hand and extend it to my side: and be not incredulous, but believing.
28  And Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God!
29  Jesus said to him: Now, when thou hast seen me, thou believest: blessed are they, who have not seen me, yet believe.
30  And many other signs did Jesus before his disciples, which are not written in this book.

 
The Blue letters, starting with the third Alap a in verse 30, counting backward 14 letters to the end of verse 29, 14 letters takes you to He h, 5th letter from the end of the verse, and another 14 letters back, we have Yod y, and so on, to He h spells hyha–“I Am”. Continuing back 14 letters four more times gives hwhy-“Yahweh”. This is by far the lowest skip rate at which the Hebrew sentence occurs in The 3 editions of The Peshitta NT tested, including The Khabouris ms.. The next highest is 995. One other phrase, “I am The Living God, The Life” –“Ena na Khayay”, has a low skip of 190; all others of the ELS’s with skips greater than 1 have much higher skip rates.
The Khabouris has no skip rate ELS’s lower than 522, so no verses close together have any ELS’s like this one, among the 17 phrases tested.
What is most interesting is the context of the passage, in which our resurrected Lord appears to Thomas, showing him his hands and side, and Thomas falls down and exclaims to Yeshua: “My Lord and my God!”


The words in which the highlighted code letters are found are translated: “Believing, also answered Him – Jesus. ‘You believed those & believe the signs.’ ”
 
Even the words in which the code letters are found spell out a coherent message about the faith in The Messiah Yeshua. Put in good English, it says, “And Jesus answered the believer: “You have believed those things; believe also the signs.’”
 
By itself, the phrase has a 1 in 78 chance of occurring in the Peshitta text. What is remarkable about it is the context in which it occurs in that text and the fact that there is a coherent message in the very words in which the code letters are found which is consistent also with the code phrase (“I AM Yahweh”) and the passage of scripture.
The code was found with the software program “Codefinder”, and searched three editions of the Peshitta NT. The code occurs in the Eastern & 1905 critical Peshitta (a Western edition). The Khabouris is an Eastern manuscript of the 12th century, apparently translated from a mid-4th century manuscript, according to the scribe who copied the manuscript. The Khabouris ms. does not contain the above code.
 
While the probability that this code would occur in the Peshitta NT is a modest 1 in 78, the probability statistic for this statement occurring in the short passage of the four verses of John 20:27-30, which is about our risen Lord appearing to Thomas and showing him his hands and feet and side, whereupon Thomas exclaims, “my Lord and my God!”, and falls down and worships Him- that probability Codefinder itself computes to be 4 chances out of a million, or one out of 250,000!
 
 Try to find a similar code message of this length in the context of four verses with the same context as the coded message such as this one in John 20 ("I AM YeHoWaH") where Thomas worships and confesses Jesus to be his Lord and his God. Only the Peshitta text (1905 edition & the Eastern text) contains this. The Khabouris manuscript, however, does not have it.

Hebrew Code in Peshitta NT

“I AM JEHOVAH” (AHIaH YeHoWaH) code in John 20:27-30 in Hebrew.

Please notice the attached photo of the Aramaic passage at the bottom.

 
27  And he said to Thomas: Reach hither thy finger, and look at my hands; and reach out thy hand and extend it to my side: and be not incredulous, but believing.
28  And Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God!
29  Jesus said to him: Now, when thou hast seen me, thou believest: blessed are they, who have not seen me, yet believe.
30  And many other signs did Jesus before his disciples, which are not written in this book.

 
The Blue letters, starting with the third Alap a in verse 30, counting backward 14 letters to the end of verse 29, 14 letters takes you to He h, 5th letter from the end of the verse, and another 14 letters back, we have Yod y, and so on, to He h spells hyha–“I Am”. Continuing back 14 letters four more times gives hwhy-“Yahweh”. This is by far the lowest skip rate at which the Hebrew sentence occurs in The 3 editions of The Peshitta NT tested, including The Khabouris ms.. The next highest is 995. One other phrase, “I am The Living God, The Life” –“Ena na Khayay”, has a low skip of 190; all others of the ELS’s with skips greater than 1 have much higher skip rates.
The Khabouris has no skip rate ELS’s lower than 522, so no verses close together have any ELS’s like this one, among the 17 phrases tested.
What is most interesting is the context of the passage, in which our resurrected Lord appears to Thomas, showing him his hands and side, and Thomas falls down and exclaims to Yeshua: “My Lord and my God!”


The words in which the highlighted code letters are found are translated: “Believing, also answered Him – Jesus. ‘You believed those & believe the signs.’ ”
 
Even the words in which the code letters are found spell out a coherent message about the faith in The Messiah Yeshua. Put in good English, it says, “And Jesus answered the believer: “You have believed those things; believe also the signs.’”
 
By itself, the phrase has a 1 in 78 chance of occurring in the Peshitta text. What is remarkable about it is the context in which it occurs in that text and the fact that there is a coherent message in the very words in which the code letters are found which is consistent also with the code phrase (“I AM Yahweh”) and the passage of scripture.
The code was found with the software program “Codefinder”, and searched three editions of the Peshitta NT. The code occurs in the Eastern & 1905 critical Peshitta (a Western edition). The Khabouris is an Eastern manuscript of the 12th century, apparently translated from a mid-4th century manuscript, according to the scribe who copied the manuscript. The Khabouris ms. does not contain the above code.
 
While the probability that this code would occur in the Peshitta NT is a modest 1 in 78, the probability statistic for this statement occurring in the short passage of the four verses of John 20:27-30, which is about our risen Lord appearing to Thomas and showing him his hands and feet and side, whereupon Thomas exclaims, “my Lord and my God!”, and falls down and worships Him- that probability Codefinder itself computes to be 4 chances out of a million, or one out of 250,000!
 
 Try to find a similar code message of this length in the context of four verses with the same context as the coded message such as this one in John 20 ("I AM YeHoWaH") where Thomas worships and confesses Jesus to be his Lord and his God. Only the Peshitta text (1905 edition & the Eastern text) contains this. The Khabouris manuscript, however, does not have it.

Jude 1:3 (AV)
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, 
it was needful for me to write unto you, 
and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints

Sinaiticus (the well-known Greek ms) has "salvation and life" as a conflation of manuscripts with each word.  Salvation is the common reading in Greek and Latin. And the "life" part is in the Greek manuscripts called the Harklean Group!  It does not show up in any ancient Greek manuscripts, unless you awkwardly think that the pristine, beautiful parchment and ink of Sinaiticus is ancient.

It is funny, there are lots of explanations of which Greek manuscripts are the Harklean Group, e.g. 1505, 1611, 2318.  However,  it is not so easy to find out what variants in the Greek are distinctively Harklean. That means that they match the Syriac Harklean (not the Peshitta, although we know the original Peshitta did not have Jude) neatly, but they do NOT match the mass of Greek manuscripts. Nor do they show up in the truly early Greek manuscripts, like Vaticanus, Bezae, Alexandrinus, etc.  Some of them may show up in the quirky Codex Sinaiticus!

(These variants can get to the Greek back from the Syriac, or they could have been ancient Greek variants that were placed in the Harklean yet vanished from the early Greek manuscript lines.)

And I know this is an oddball request here on the Peshitta forum, but if you have any ideas or thoughts or suggestions it is much appreciated.

At any rate Jude 1:3 is very interesting, it is one of many evidences that Sinaiticus is not an ancient manuscript, and an example of a Harklean corruption.

Hope you found this interesting.

Thanks!

Steven Avery
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(keeping my name here from way back .. Schmuel)

 
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