Acts 20:28 - a rarity, a Byzantine conflation, shows how conflations can help date variants and manuscripts

[Steven Avery]

Facebook - Pure Bible
https://www.facebook.com/groups/purebible/posts/781619618596596/?comment_id=785445918213966

It should be noted that here you have a real rarity, an actual and clear Byzantine conflation, "Lord and God". And thus a major error in the "Majority" text.

LaParola
https://www.laparola.net/greco/index.php?rif1=51&rif2=20:28

Since we can know this is a conflation, the supporting manuscripts, even the three uncials, are much later than Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, etc.

Wallace in NETBible
tc The reading “of God” (τοῦ θεοῦ, tou theou) is found in א B 614 1175 1505 al vg sy; other witnesses have “of the Lord” (τοῦ κυρίου, tou kuriou) here (so P A C* D E Ψ 33 1739 al co), while the majority of the later minuscule mss conflate these two into “of the Lord and God” (τοῦ κυρίου καὶ [τοῦ] θεοῦ, tou kuriou kai [tou] theou).

 

[Steven Avery]

Six Lectures
Scrivener
https://archive.org/details/sixlecturesonte00scriuoft/page/170/mode/2up

Even Wilbur Pickering basically has to de facto acknowledge that his Majority text is in error here.
http://www.revisedstandard.net/text...CdrOv2qdYHFqf_lgt6c2wkEe-FHfvILc8sK5drJLk#v44

Not sure if Maurice Robinson has a defense of the Byzantine corruption.

Note
https://eternalpropositions.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/acts-2028-whose-blood/
My copy of the majority Byzantine text (Robinson / Pierpont) says: “…church of the Lord and God.” No footnotes about variants. This must be the majority reading.

 

[Steven Avery]

Burgon points out a different Hort difficulty

Revision Revised
https://books.google.com/books?id=nXkw1TAatV8C&pg=PA353

 

[Steven Avery]

Ezra Abbot
https://books.google.com/books?id=iwgXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA313
40 pages

Panopolist
https://books.google.com/books?id=R6XNAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA508

 

[Steven Avery]

There was one that is truly a Byzantine conflation, Acts 20:28.

Most were easily refuted by Burgon and Pickering, because the supposed conflation was the original text, with two variants created by text drops.