Good afternoon, Avery.
I (although I do not know if I am the first since it was indexed already) discovered a strange reading in a multilingual manuscript
with a friend of mine. He helped in the translation of the Arabic.
Note: The Arabic readings might not be exact, since it is modern Arabic.
While doing scholarly work on the evidence favoring the Johannine Comma, I discovered the strange reading in the Arabic of Minuscule 460 (I added this to Wikipedia, too; it is an interesting finding), a three-columned manuscript (each column representing one language in this order, Greek, Latin, and Arabic)
has different readings in folio 115v, which is 1 John 5:4-13 if I recall correctly. The Greek column omits the
Heavenly Witnesses in its entirety (unless I am reading incorrectly after v. 8, but it doesn't have "
on earth"). The Latin column has the Heavenly after the Earthly, and the apodosis of v. 6 reads: "
SPS est veritas" (Spirit is the truth), meaning it is likely not Vulgate inspired,
and the Arabic, reads "on earth" (الأرض, or a very similar reading since the manuscript is of the 13th century), my friend helped translate and asked 4 Arabic speakers (2 Muslims and 2 Christians) which all agreed that it was
on earth, or on land. (Line 13).
But the Arabic omits v. 7 if I am correct, although I did not investigate the following lines. Interestingly, v. 6 also has Spirit is the truth (".لان الروح هو الحق (Line 11) لذي يشهد"). Which I used as an argument against it being from a Vulgate reading. Here I attach the image of the Arabic. It would be amazing if you could revise this with the manuscript team or with a greater analysis.
The manuscript is available here (Folio 115v):
https://www.internetculturale.it/jm...:VE0049:CSTOR.240.9602&mode=all&teca=marciana
The burgundy square represents on earth.
Here is the complete image of the 3 columns, I had not investigated the Arabic at that moment, but the
"on earth" should be in the same line as the aqua & sanguine & hi tres unum sunt of the Latin. The red marks symbolize the Comma and the Earthly in Greek.
Correct me if anything.
Have a nice day. Pax vobiscum.
