Steven Avery
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This is a very significant variant, small in textual size, big in doctrinal import.
More planned!
Mark 7:18-19 (AV)
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also?
Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man,
it cannot defile him; Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly,
and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Matthew 15:17 (AV)
Do not ye yet understand,
that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly,
and is cast out into the draught?
Acts 10:15 (AV)
And the voice spake unto him again the second time,
What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Matthew 5:17-18 (AV)
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets:
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled.
Acts 25:7-8 (AV)
And when he was come,
the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about,
and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
While he answered for himself,
Neither against the law of the Jews,
neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar,
have I offended any thing at all.
Jesus did not consider all animals to be food, nor did He ever eat any unclean animals (this is confirmed indirectly by Peter in the Book of Acts 10:14; if Jesus would have, this would have likely been a charge that the Pharisees would have made against Him, but He did not; also, since the Bible says that Jesus never sinned in Hebrews 4:15, and that is additional support that He did not eat any--religious Jews in His day did not eat it). If Jesus declared all animals to be clean, would the Bible still use unclean animals as symbols of uncleanliness?
LaParola
http://www.laparola.net/greco/index.php?rif1=48&rif2=7:19
John Hurt GNT
http://www.greeknewtestament.com/B41C007.htm#V19
Received Text - καθαριζον
"a very intelligible meaning" yet also a "difficulty"
Critical Text - καθαριζων,
Burgon -
"grammatical difficulty introduced by καθαριζων, which would be made to agree in the same clause with a verb separated from it by thirty-five parenthetic words, including two interrogations and the closing sentence. "
" the Revisers, in order to make intelligible sense, were obliged to introduce three fresh English words that have nothing to correspond to them in the Greek; being a repetition of what the mind of the reader would hardly bear in memory. "
Bezae - καθαρίζει
CARM
https://forums.carm.org/threads/a-n...tristic-studies-and-a-troll.1896/#post-136380
Mark 7:19 (AV)
Because it entereth not into his heart,
but into the belly,
and goeth out into the draught,
purging all meats?
This is using the Greek majority reading καθαρίζον.
Afaik, nobody uses the Codex Bezae text καθαρίζει.
What Timothy Keller says does not make sense, and it is curious that he offers the ultra-minority Codex Bezae text.
Even using the critical text, καθαρίζων it is quite strained to get the declare all foods clean English, as you point out.
My Bible text is the TR-AV.
Be careful with the apparatus, they have a trick to omit many uncials that support the Byzantine-TR reading.
It is a fascinating textual variant, with very significant doctrinal overtones.
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BCHF
Did Jesus declare all foods clean? - Page 3 - Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com, the "declare all foods clean" is a possible interpretation/extrapolation based on the minority variant, masculine, in the corruption versions.
The TR/Byz reading is neuter, and is as in the AV, and does not support the errant idea of declaring all foods clean.
Mark 7:18-19 (AV)
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also?
Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man,
it cannot defile him; Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly,
and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Bruce Gore - "Jesus abrogates kosher" (using CT)
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Debate - Shnarkle vs. Burls - led to CARM discussion
https://www.debate.org/debates/Mark...ther-than-Thus-he-declared-all-foods-clean/1/
Confusion here is trying to bring in Codex Bezae, which Latinized variant is basically irrelevant.
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