1 John 5:7-8 Textual Commentary on the Greek NT Question

Ronald Quick
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

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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