12-08-2013, 06:31 AM
Quote:By way of example, another verse not found in many early places is Luke 22: 43 - 44. If you go to the RSV, there is no set of verses 43 - 44. I don't know why this should be although I am coming around to the position that there were some early "Church Fathers" who knew a lot more about the cards being played than they were letting on...
Justin Martyr is among the earliest "Church Fathers" Charles, and he shows us that the verse was indeed part of the text, and this just about 50 years before the last Apostle is said to have finished his earthly course.
"For in the memoirs which I say were drawn up by His apostles and those who followed them, [it is recorded] that His sweat fell down like drops of blood while He was praying, and saying, ?If it be possible, let this cup pass:?" Justin Martyr: Dialogue With Trypho (about 150 A.D.)
The statement is also in the Peshitta text, which goes back to the Apostles...and if it is in there, and in Justin Martyr's copy of the NT, and in Tatian's Diatessaron from 160 A.D....that's good enough for me. Why the RSV editors chose to omit it, is the question, it's part of the Holy Scriptures, and all other major English translations from the Greek text has the verses present.
A side note: I was looking at David Bauscher's translation of these verses...and he makes a mistake by adding the word "he" which is not present in the text that he translates from, which makes Jesus falling on the ground, and not His drops of sweat, like blood, which fell on the ground.
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