06-19-2009, 01:35 PM
Thanks Stephen for you advice. Your tool is fantastic.
Thanks Christina for you precisions, you're right.
Ograabe, the thing is that among the around 5700 greek manuscripts of the Bible that we got around the world not two full manuscripts are exactly the same. There is always, at least, a few differences.
The "majority text" is the gathering of all the manuscripts which are the more numerous and the closest. They are around 5200 manuscripts from this type. That is why it is called "the majority text". But, among the 5200 manuscripts with a very similar text, there is still, you can guess it, hundreds of differences. These differences are small. Most of the time they do not affect the sense of the theological aspect. Anyway, depending on which manuscripts you decide are the best witnesses among the others, you might have a slightly different text at the end. That's why you have a few different versions of the same "majority text" depending on whom did it, and which manuscripts it refers to.
Hope I'm clear enough. Sorry, for my english, which might be quite awkward sometimes.
Samuel
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Thanks Christina for you precisions, you're right.
Ograabe, the thing is that among the around 5700 greek manuscripts of the Bible that we got around the world not two full manuscripts are exactly the same. There is always, at least, a few differences.
The "majority text" is the gathering of all the manuscripts which are the more numerous and the closest. They are around 5200 manuscripts from this type. That is why it is called "the majority text". But, among the 5200 manuscripts with a very similar text, there is still, you can guess it, hundreds of differences. These differences are small. Most of the time they do not affect the sense of the theological aspect. Anyway, depending on which manuscripts you decide are the best witnesses among the others, you might have a slightly different text at the end. That's why you have a few different versions of the same "majority text" depending on whom did it, and which manuscripts it refers to.
Hope I'm clear enough. Sorry, for my english, which might be quite awkward sometimes.
Samuel
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