Interpolation in the peshitta text

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Shlama Paul,

Are you going to buy Dave's tripe wholesale, simply because he agrees with you on a verse in Matthew ? How about asking him if he can read Greek or Aramaic, or Hebrew, or how much study he has done in Textual Criticism. What he wrote you about mss. and "Neutral texts" is inaccurate and outdated for a long time.

As for Westcott and Hort "amassing" neutral texts
for a lifetime, that is simply false. They adhered to two manuscripts for their Greek NT edition, and often to only one ms., and they were Vaticanus (which they worshipped) and Sinaiticus, which they adored somewhat less, as it had been recovered from a trash can in a monastery near Mt Sinai. They never discovered or ammassed anything. They grabbed Sinaiticus, because it is old, and Vaticanus, from the Vatican, because it was the oldest Uncial ms. There are older mss. known among papyrii today.

Anyone who has read the manuscripts and studied them , as I have, would know that they both are very sloppy work and contain numerous spelling, grammatical and transcriptional errors (additions, omissions, word order changes, and even some seemingly deliberate alterations affecting doctrine).Both of those mss. say, for example, that Jesus was speared through the side before He died on the cross in Matthew 27:49. This means He was killed by a soldier with a spear !

Most people don't realize these things, because they don't read Greek. There are many other gross inconsistencies in those mss. not found even in much older papyrii.

For the Truth,

Dave