Friday, June 13, 2025

Vetus Latina at 1 John 5:7-8

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 Vetus Latina at 1 John 5:7-8 is very messy. (Vetus Latina, 26.1, p. 363 ) ( Vetus Latina, 26.1, pp. 364-65 ) Note well that there is not a ...

Codex Perpinianensis on Revelation 16:5

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Codex Perpinianensis is dated to the second half of the 12th century and referred to as "VL 54 (p)."  It is available from the Fre...

Codex Gigas at Revelation 16:5

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  Codex Gigas is considered an "Old Latin" edition.  It contains the following reading for Revelation 16:5: ( image 551/629 ) Et ...

Death of Antiochus IV according to the books of the Maccabees

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2 Maccabees 9 describes Antiochus: 2 Maccabees 9:1-6 About that time Antiochus retreated in disgrace from the region of Persia. He had ente...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Codex Gigas at 1 John 5:7-8 (And Codex Sangermanensis primus and Codex Colbertinus and Codex Perpinianensis and Book of Armagh

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I thought I would check the Vetus Latina manuscripts ( a helpful list can be found here ) to see what they actually say it when it comes to ...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Lorenzo Valla and the Johannine Comma

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Lorenzo Valla's annotations on the New Testament, as published by Erasmus, included only about one third of one page on 1 John: ( Folio ...

Giannozzo Manetti and the Johannine Comma

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Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was arguably the leading expert on translation from Greek to Latin in the 15th century.  His translation of th...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Alcuin of York and the Johannine Comma

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 As I was looking for something else, I happened across an image  containing the end of 1 John and the beginning of 2 John in a copy of Alcu...

Isidore on Hebrew as the Original Language

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Isidore of Seville (560-636) is one of the most influential western theologians of the late patristic period.  He was a noted linguist, but ...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

Isidore of Seville on Dragons

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Isidore of Seville (560-636) is one of the most influential western theologians of the late patristic period.  One of his major scholarly fo...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

The Johannine Comma in the Complutensian Polyglot

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There are extremely few marginal notes regarding the reading of the text in the Complutensian Polyglot.  One of those very few notes is foun...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

The 19th Century Shift in Views Regarding the Johannine Comma

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The following endorsement of John Candlish (1806-1873) is attributed to Charles Spurgeon: "A man hardly needs anything beyond Candlish....
Monday, June 02, 2025

Pope Leo X's Approval of the Complutensian Polyglot

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Pope Leo X, writing on March 22, 1520, approved of the publication of the Complutensian Polyglot. One of the issues faced by the Complutensi...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Lord's Prayer in a Papyrus (Probable Amulet)

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Brent Nongbri in “The Lord’s Prayer and XMΓ: Two Christian Papyrus Amulets,” The Harvard Theological Review , vol. 104, no. 1, 2011, pp. 59–...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

Josephus' Canon - A Brief Response to Gary Michuta

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In a recent livestream (" Josephus Does Not Give a Canon "), Gary Michuta argued that a famous quotation from Against Apion , usua...