1 John 5:7-8 Textual Commentary on the Greek NT Question
According to Bruce Metzger there are only 8 manuscripts that contain this passage - yet as far as I can see he lists only 7. Is this an error in the Logos resource development, the publisher or have I made a mistake? Here the paragraph out of the Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament.
(A) EXTERNAL EVIDENCE. (1) The passage is absent from every known Greek manuscript except eight, and these contain the passage in what appears to be a translation from a late recension of the Latin Vulgate. Four of the eight manuscripts contain the passage as a variant reading written in the margin as a later addition to the manuscript. The eight manuscripts are as follows:
61:
codex Montfortianus, dating from the early sixteenth century.
88v.r.:
a variant reading in a sixteenth century hand, added to the fourteenth-century codex Regius of Naples.
221v.r.:
a variant reading added to a tenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
429v.r.:
a variant reading added to a sixteenth-century manuscript at Wolfenbüttel.
636v.r.:
a variant reading added to a sixteenth-century manuscript at Naples.
918:
a sixteenth-century manuscript at the Escorial, Spain.
2318:
an eighteenth-century manuscript, influenced by the Clementine Vulgate, at Bucharest, Rumania.
Metzger, B. M., & United Bible Societies. (1994). A textual commentary on the Greek New Testament, second edition a companion volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament (4th rev. ed.) (647–648). London; New York: United Bible Societies.
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I checked the printed version of the book, and Metzger does in fact say eight manuscripts but lists only seven. However, there are actually nine Greek manuscripts: he does not list
177: a variant reading added to an eleventh century manuscript
629: a fourteenth-century manuscript
You can find all these (and also the non Greek manuscripts) in the PBB book at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/46696.aspx
Richard Wilson
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Thanks for looking up this information and for the PBB.
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Richard Wilson said:
I checked the printed version of the book, and Metzger does in fact say eight manuscripts but lists only seven. However, there are actually nine Greek manuscripts: he does not list
177: a variant reading added to an eleventh century manuscript
629: a fourteenth-century manuscript
You can find all these (and also the non Greek manuscripts) in the PBB book at http://community.logos.com/forums/t/46696.aspx
Richard, I don't see this result because I am unfamiliar with the format of the book and not a Greek expert; but trying to learn more! Can you walk through how you see this in the PB resource, or post a picture showing the 9 manuscripts?
Thanks
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I think you have imported the docx file as a Personal Book. In that case, it works like a normal commentary. Type 1John 5:7 in the space for a reference, and the variant shows up. First there is all the evidence for the text in the SBL edition of the Greek New Testament (the short text). Then the evidence for the longer text. After the longer text (μαρτυροῦντες ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ...τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ τὸ αἷμα) the manuscript evidence is given: 61, 629, 88, etc. The v.r. superscript indicates a variant reading in the manuscript. You can also see that seven of the nine Greek manuscripts are in parenthesis, which means that they do not have exactly the same text but some slight variations. There is more information on the interpretation of all the symbols in the Introduction of the personal book, which is at the beginning of the book.
Richard Wilson
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Thanks Richard!
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