Well I have found a verse in which there actually is a significant textual variant.
#biblestudy #greeknewtestament #koinegreek #textualcriticism
Usually I tell people NOT to worry too much about Textual Variants.
This one is minor ONE ADDED Verbal Phrase but Significant for Doctrinal Reasons
Okay Mark 10:19 and in Mark ONLY to the list of commandments is added one phrase
Do NOT defraud mee apostereeseeis Aorist Subjunctive.
Apostereoo means to NOT rob bereave or defraud someone of something that is rightfully theirs.
It is not in the ten commandments but seems to derive from the Greek translation of Deuteronomy 24 : 14 -15 in which employers are told not to oppress workers local or foreign by denying or failing to give their wages.
So why would Mark or some later scribe insert this when its not in the other gospels?
Consider the context the right young man trying to prove how righteous he is and how he deserves salvation.
It may possibly have been added by a later scribe than mark but the message is valid and biblical!
Don't stress on the small differences like this though! Its one phrase!
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Sunday, 6 May 2018
Saturday, 3 June 2017
Like a Dove and Textual Variants
#textual variant #gospels #greeknewtestament
A lot of people make a fuss about textual variants in the gospels however most of these variants are simply one of two words that do not effect doctrine.
Lets take Jesus' Baptism as an example.
My English version is the RSV
Matthew 3:16 behold the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him
Mark 1:10 saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove
Luke 3:21-22 the heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form as a dove,
John 1:32 I (john the baptist) saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven
Really the only issue should be if there were any eye witnesses apart from John the Baptist?
All 4 accounts agreed the heavens opened that there was some sort of visual change in the air and that something came down katabaino that looked like a dove that the bystanders thought was the pneuma or spirit of god .
The main differences in Greek?
Matthew says open in aorist passive and uses hoosie instead of hoos and the greek says come down upon him erkhomenon epp autoon
Mark uses skhizoo split open and eis instead of epi but eis can mean both into and onto
Luke gets more technical and uses somatikos plus eidei and adds hagios holy to spirit
John emphasizes the Baptist as an eyewitness.
All 4 versions use katabaino All agree on a movement downwards materializing as something that looked like a dove that came down on Jesus.
And cynics might say it was a trained dove etc etc etc but the point is don't fuss over just one or two words when meanings are in concord?
Mid week back to Greek gods ... Next weekend either another word study or we start on Marks Gospel.
A lot of people make a fuss about textual variants in the gospels however most of these variants are simply one of two words that do not effect doctrine.
Lets take Jesus' Baptism as an example.
My English version is the RSV
Matthew 3:16 behold the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him
Mark 1:10 saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove
Luke 3:21-22 the heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form as a dove,
John 1:32 I (john the baptist) saw the Spirit descend as a dove from heaven
Really the only issue should be if there were any eye witnesses apart from John the Baptist?
All 4 accounts agreed the heavens opened that there was some sort of visual change in the air and that something came down katabaino that looked like a dove that the bystanders thought was the pneuma or spirit of god .
The main differences in Greek?
Matthew says open in aorist passive and uses hoosie instead of hoos and the greek says come down upon him erkhomenon epp autoon
Mark uses skhizoo split open and eis instead of epi but eis can mean both into and onto
Luke gets more technical and uses somatikos plus eidei and adds hagios holy to spirit
John emphasizes the Baptist as an eyewitness.
All 4 versions use katabaino All agree on a movement downwards materializing as something that looked like a dove that came down on Jesus.
And cynics might say it was a trained dove etc etc etc but the point is don't fuss over just one or two words when meanings are in concord?
Mid week back to Greek gods ... Next weekend either another word study or we start on Marks Gospel.
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