12-07-2013, 12:51 AM
Distazo, discussions are good, arguments are not. Let's have a discussion.
I'll send to your message box all the evidence in the Greek manuscripts, and lack thereof, of the Pericope Alduterae. Maybe you already know? It is not just the Eastern Peshitta that does not have it in the text...but most of the oldest Greek Manuscripts and the oldest Latin copies as well.
Bishop Papias in about 125 A.D., seems to indicate that it was an early account, which was originally found in "the gospel of the Hebrews", which is now lost. We much later see it in some late Greek Manuscripts and some late Latin copies in various places in John's Gospel, and sometimes in other Gospels too, where it is placed, rather than in John. It may have come into some early Greek or Latin texts, which have not survived from the gospel of the Hebrews, and the later copies perpetuated it. In any case, I don't believe it is true that the Church of the East omitted it in future copies, because they wanted to execute adulteresses, rather than forgive them.
I'll speak about John 6:11 later.
Blessings,
Chuck
I'll send to your message box all the evidence in the Greek manuscripts, and lack thereof, of the Pericope Alduterae. Maybe you already know? It is not just the Eastern Peshitta that does not have it in the text...but most of the oldest Greek Manuscripts and the oldest Latin copies as well.
Bishop Papias in about 125 A.D., seems to indicate that it was an early account, which was originally found in "the gospel of the Hebrews", which is now lost. We much later see it in some late Greek Manuscripts and some late Latin copies in various places in John's Gospel, and sometimes in other Gospels too, where it is placed, rather than in John. It may have come into some early Greek or Latin texts, which have not survived from the gospel of the Hebrews, and the later copies perpetuated it. In any case, I don't believe it is true that the Church of the East omitted it in future copies, because they wanted to execute adulteresses, rather than forgive them.
I'll speak about John 6:11 later.
Blessings,
Chuck