10-06-2003, 05:38 PM
Rob,
I know you were ready to jump in on that but, I didn't say that a child was never named by the woman in scripture.
What i said was this:
The Angel told Joseph he would name the child, then the Peshitta makes the mistake by saying that Mary named it towards then end of the chapter.
Now it's very clear about this. 2 translators, Murdock translated the person the angel was talking to as "thou", and Lamsa went farther by translating it "you". Very precise and very clear. Also, if there was an agenda that either of them had over this, they would have changed the the angels words or chapter ending, but they didn't, they translated it just as it was worded.
This points to a mistake with the Peshitta.
Now on top of that, as you go through Murdocks translation, you find where he pointed out interpolations/additions. His notes would say "most ancient manuscripts don't have,...blah blah." Now this caught me by surprise cause I was told directly by Paul on here that the manuscripts agree completely with themselves. But that is not the case. So far I've found quite a few, but will look more tonight. Might list them when I get farther into it.
The problem with interpolations and mistakes is, someone attempted to make this adhere to something else, as you look at the addition, it lines up perfectly with the Greek addition.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.
I know you were ready to jump in on that but, I didn't say that a child was never named by the woman in scripture.
What i said was this:
The Angel told Joseph he would name the child, then the Peshitta makes the mistake by saying that Mary named it towards then end of the chapter.
Now it's very clear about this. 2 translators, Murdock translated the person the angel was talking to as "thou", and Lamsa went farther by translating it "you". Very precise and very clear. Also, if there was an agenda that either of them had over this, they would have changed the the angels words or chapter ending, but they didn't, they translated it just as it was worded.
This points to a mistake with the Peshitta.
Now on top of that, as you go through Murdocks translation, you find where he pointed out interpolations/additions. His notes would say "most ancient manuscripts don't have,...blah blah." Now this caught me by surprise cause I was told directly by Paul on here that the manuscripts agree completely with themselves. But that is not the case. So far I've found quite a few, but will look more tonight. Might list them when I get farther into it.
The problem with interpolations and mistakes is, someone attempted to make this adhere to something else, as you look at the addition, it lines up perfectly with the Greek addition.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.