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1 | textual evidence | Mark 9:49 | kdelp | 118627 | ||
Does anyone know the textual evidence for leaving out the second phrase that is translated in the KJV? | ||||||
2 | textual evidence | Mark 9:49 | flinkywood | 118635 | ||
Because this is a so-called “difficult passage”, this may be a so-called “scribal gloss”. In the days before the photocopier (pre-1950’s), and printing press (1450), scribes (hume beans who copied by hand) made occasional mistakes and would often put corrections in the page margins. Difficulty arose when the margin was also used for explanatory notes or comments (glosses) on the text. You can imagine how a subsequent scribe, charged with re-copying such a glossed text, and thinking it part of the text, might be disinclined to risk omitting it. Mark 9:49 is one in a number of longer “textual variants” that may have germinated in this manner. The example, “...and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt”, seems to expand or explain the meaning of “For every one shall be salted with fire,” and may indeed be such a gloss in light of its cross-reference: “And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. (Lev 2:13) Here’s a textual note on this passage from “The Jewish New Testament Commentary”: "Salt is used to season (Co 4:5-6) and as a preservative, producing permanence (Matthew 5:13-14). 'It is forbidden to offer any sacrifice without salt' (Rambam, The Commandments, Negative Commandment number 99; see Lev. 2:13); hence it is appropriate for talmidim, who are to offer themselves as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1-2), to be salted with fire. Observant Jews sprinkle salt on bread before reciting the b’rakhah over it (Mt. 14:9); this follows from the rabbinic equating of the home dining table with the temple altar (7:2-4). See Luke 14:34-35." The KJV, LITV, MKJV, NKJV and other translations based on the Textus Receptus (TR) include the second part of Mark 9:49. Colin |
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