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1 | "Tables" or "Beds" in original text? | Mark 7:4 | disciplerami | 77503 | ||
Most up-to-date Greek text: 'table' not there. | ||||||
2 | "Tables" or "Beds" in original text? | Mark 7:4 | Morant61 | 77511 | ||
Greetings Dan! The UBS text also gives this reading a (C) rating, but that is the reading that they adopt. There are possible readings. 1) One version (not manuscript) omits the phrase entirely. 2) Most manuscripts include the entire phrase (kai kalkion kai klinon). 3) Several manuscripts (including a couple older ones like p45 and Aleph)only use the words (kai kalkion). The textual appartatus lists two possiblites to explain the different readings. 1) The words 'kai beds' could have been added to harmonize the list with Lev. 15. 2) The words could have been accidently ommited because of 'homoeoteleuton' - i.e. the skipping from one set of similar letters to another set. Personally, I would opt for the second option. It is much easier to explain why this phrase could have been accidently ommited than to explain why it would be deliberately added. Either way, the word 'table' or 'bed' is in the text of most manuscripts. As I've argued in the past, that fact alone doesn't necessarily make it the right reading though! :-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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3 | "Tables" or "Beds" in original text? | Mark 7:4 | disciplerami | 77533 | ||
OK, Thanks very much. Good answer. Then if the Holy Spirit intended for 'beds' to be mentioned in Mark 7:4, I believe it. I also believe therefore that tables had to be immersed :) The primary idea of Christian baptism is a burial, and only a burial should be received. The Eunuch and Philip went down into the water and Paul said the Romans were 'buried with Christ in baptism.' History teaches us that sprinkling and pouring were added as accomodations when men put off their baptism (i.e. the adoption of 'clinical baptisms') Disciplerami. |
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