08-28-2008, 09:36 PM
Akhi Mike,
One further note: imagine for one moment, place yourself in our shoes. These 22 books were delivered to us by Jewish Aramaic speakers in the 1st and 2nd centuries, and these other 5 books ... our first exposure to them was through American Presbyterian missionaries in the 18th-19th centuries....in English, of all things, and the history behind the English was of course the Greek via Latin.
Long after your own canon was closed, your "Hudra" (cyclical readings, or "propers", read during the liturgy) had been established. None of your Patristic writers referenced any of them for the last, oh, 1700 years or so.
What would you imagine the reaction to have been?
You know, I don't think that even if copies are found in Patmos tomorrow of an Aramaic Revelation, signed personally by John, that a canon can be re-opened and modified. It has been too long of a period of time. Once a canon is closed, it remains so.
+Shamasha
One further note: imagine for one moment, place yourself in our shoes. These 22 books were delivered to us by Jewish Aramaic speakers in the 1st and 2nd centuries, and these other 5 books ... our first exposure to them was through American Presbyterian missionaries in the 18th-19th centuries....in English, of all things, and the history behind the English was of course the Greek via Latin.
Long after your own canon was closed, your "Hudra" (cyclical readings, or "propers", read during the liturgy) had been established. None of your Patristic writers referenced any of them for the last, oh, 1700 years or so.
What would you imagine the reaction to have been?
You know, I don't think that even if copies are found in Patmos tomorrow of an Aramaic Revelation, signed personally by John, that a canon can be re-opened and modified. It has been too long of a period of time. Once a canon is closed, it remains so.
+Shamasha