David Robert Palmer - DRP
https://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/FirstJohnCh5v7.pdf
Here are their dates and contents, if they are Gregory numbers, according to the Kurzgefaßte Liste(Aland, Kurt, Editor; Kurzgefaßte Liste,Der Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments; (Berlin & New York, de Gruyter, 1994). Then I resolve them to what the Gregory number would be if they are Tischendorf numbers.
88 - XII - contains the passage only in margin; Neapel, Bibl. Naz., Ms. II. A. 7; is Greg #88, Scriv # 173
110 - XII -What is now called #110 contains 1 John, but OMITS the comma; KJV advocates when they refer to MS 110, are referring to a Codex Ravianus, also called Codex Berolinensis, which has been proven to be a forgery, a copy made in the 1500’s, many parts from the Greek text of the Stunica printed Edition, reproducing every typographical error thereof, and other parts from the TR editions. See discussion re Georgius Gottlieb Pappelbaum’s examination of it in “The Monthly Review” Volume 22, January to April 1797, Pages 493-497; downloadable from my website at
http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/MonthlyReview.pdf. (PDF, 37 MB) Georgius Pappelbaum collated Codex Berolinensis, and published his collation in 1785. F.H.A. Scrivener, in "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament," Vol 2, 4th Ed., Wipf & Stock Publishers, on
Page 401, calls Evan 110 (Codex Ravianus), "a mere worthless copy from printed books."
429 - XIV - contains the passage only in margin; Wolfenbiittel, Herzog August Bibliothek 16.7 A0; is Greg #
636 - XV - contains the passage only in margin by a corrector; Neapel, Bibl. Naz., Ms. II. A. 9; is Greg #636
918 - XVI - does contain 1 John and the disputed passage; Escorial, Z. I. 5; is Greg #918 below
According to the footnotes of the UBS4 Greek New Testament, and Text und Textwert Vol. 3, there are only
5 Greek mss that contain the passage in the text itself:
61 - XVI Century - Dublin, Trinity College, Ms. 30 (see 34 above)
629 - XIV Century - Vatican Library, Ottob, Gr. 298 (see 162 above)
918 - XVI Century - Escorial, Z. I. 5
2318 - XVIII Century - Bucharest, Romania. Akad., 318 (234).
2473 - XVII Century - Athens, National Library, Taphu 545
Greek mss that contain the comma in the margin:
88 - XII Century, but written in the margin by a modern hand; Naples, National Library, Ms. II. A. 7
177 - XVII - XVIII hand; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library); Cod. graec, 211
221 - X Century; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Gr. 110. I suspect the margin writing is a modern hand.
429 - XIV Century; Wolfenbuttel, Herzog August Bibliothek 16,7 A0
636 - XV Century; Naples, National Library, Ms. II. A. 9
Following is a critical apparatus, gathered from Text und Textwert vol. 3; and the UBS4 Greek New Testament:
Omit (skip mss)
Lect it-ar vg-st,ww syr-p,h cop-sa, bo arm-mss eth geo slav
Clement-lat (Origen-lat) Cyril Dam Ps-Oec Ps-Dionysius-vid (John-Damascus); Rebaptism, Ambrose, Augustine Quodvultdeus Facundus
Erasmus Eds. 1,2 HF RP NA27 {A}
testimonium dicunt in caelo, pater, verbum (filius id vgmss) et spiritus, et hi tres unum sunt
(+ in Christo Iesu it-l,r vg-mss) it-l vg-mss; Speculum Varimadum Ps-Vigilius (Fulgentius) (Priscillian) (Cyprian)
SA Is it-l in there twice?
MORE TO BE ADDED -
And the APPARATUS IS GROSSLY DEFICIENT
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Raising the Ghost of Arius
One of the issues discussed at the Fourth Lateran Council was a
rapprochement between the Roman and Byzantine churches; as part of this
process, the Acts of the Council were translated into Greek. The section in which
Joachim’s propositions are condemned is the first documented occurrence of the
comma in Greek.113
The first Greek bible to contain the comma was copied in 1362-1363 by a
certain brother Bartholomew of the monastery of St John on the Mount of Olives
(now Rome, BAV cod. Ottob. gr. 298, GA 629ap). Bartholomew gives the Greek
and Latin texts in parallel columns, accommodating the Greek in many unusual
ways to the Latin.116 Cardinal Basil Bessarion (c. 1403-1472) added the comma
in Latin to the margin of his bible (now Venice, Biblioteca Marciana ms. gr. Z. 10
(394) (GA 209), indicating that he was aware of the discrepancy between the
Latin and the Greek text: iv xw Tuxxivw- sicuti tres sunt qui testimonium dant in ccelo:
pater, verbum et spiritus sanctus.117 The next Greek manuscript containing the
comma can be dated securely to the first two decades of the sixteenth century;
this is the text used by Erasmus (Dublin, Trinity College ms gr. 30 = GA 6leapr), a
manuscript we will examine in considerable detail.
Another two sixteenth-century Greek manuscripts contain the comma in
the text, but both take their readings from printed editions: Madrid, Escorial ms
Z. I. 5. (GA 918apK+) gives the comma precisely as it occurs in Erasmus’ 1522
edition; while Berlin, Staatsbibliothek ms gr. fol. 1. 2 (Tischendorf to 110, “Codex
Ravianus”) is a transcript of the Complutensian edition, with some variants
introduced from the 1550 edition of Robert Estienne (Stephanus) the Elder.118
Athens, Ethnike Bibliotheke ms Taphu 545 (GA 2473a), copied in 1634, and
Bucharest, Bibl. Academiei Romane ms 318 [234] (GA 2318aplc+), copied in the
eighteenth century, both give the comma in the text, but this is simply because
both are copied from printed texts in the textus receptus tradition. None of these
four manuscripts therefore has any independent critical value.
In addition, five Greek manuscripts have the comma entered in the margin
more recently than the body text, but the readings of the comma in four are all
derived from sixteenth-century printed editions, and the fifth appears to be cited
from memory.119 Since almost all the Greek manuscripts lack verse 7, they
consequently also lack the phrase “on earth” in verse 8, since there is no need to
contrast the witness of the water, the Spirit and the blood with three witnesses in
heaven. There is therefore no trace of the comma in any Greek bible written
before the fourteenth century. When the comma is quoted in Greek, it is always
under the influence of the Latin Vulgate, or of printed editions such as the
Complutensian bible, Erasmus’ editions, or their descendant, the textus receptus.
113 The passage from the Greek translation of the Acta is given in Martin, 1717, 138; Martin,
1722, 170; Horne, 1821, 4:505; Seiler, 1835, 616: oxi xpel? dcriv oi papxupouvxe:; iv oupavw, o
Ttaxqp, koyog, Kai rrveupa ayiov, Kai xotixoi [sc. ouxoi] oi xpeu; sv eicriv. This reading resembles
that in Codex Montfortianus (except for the omission ofxw before oupavcp and the insertion of
the article o, which apparently does duty for all three persons) so closely that we might suspect
that the scribe of Montfortianus had consulted this document. There is a fifteenth-century
Greek ms of the Acta of the Lateran Council in the Bodleian Library, but it is one of the
Codices Barocciani, brought from Venice and given to the University in 1629 by Lord
Pembroke (Cod. Barocc. 71, 84-87); see Coxe, 1853,114.
116 See Capecelatro, 1893, 161, for a description. For a discussion of the comma in this
manuscript, see Westcott, 1892, 207; Westcott mistakenly gives the shelfmark as Cod. Vat.
Ottob. 162, an error arising from the fact that Scholz assigned this ms the numbers a162 and p200.
This manuscript has a unique reading of the comma, which strongly suggests that it is not an
original part of the Greek text: "Oxi xpd<; dcriv ol papxupouvxe? drib xou oupavou, xraxqp, koyo<;,
Kai Ttvcupa ayiov, Kai oi xpd$ d<; xo £v eicnv. Kai xpei? dcriv oi papxupouvx£? ari [Editio critica
maior gives arto] xfjs yrjq, xo rrveupa xo iSSwp Kai xo aipa. Ei xf|v papxupiav [...]. The reading
given by Brooke, 1912, 165, lacks ayiov after Ttveupa in verse 7. See the facsimile in Horne,
1854,4:217, and the transcriptions in Aland, Behnduhn-Mertz and Mink, 1987,1:165, and the
Editio critica maior IV.1.3:350 for confirmation.
117 Griesbach, 1810, 2:686.
118 Delitzsch, 1871,10-12; Wachtel, 1995,318-319.
119 The following readings are all later marginal additions in the margins of the respective
manuscripts: l) Naples Bibl. Naz., II. A. 7 (GA 88apr), a twelfth-century ms: oxi xpel^ dcriv oi
papxupouvxei; [add. in margine: tv xco oupavw, o rraxf|p, Kai o i\.oyo<;, Kai xo ayiov rrveupa, Kai
ouxoi oi xpdi; sv dm. Kai xpdi; dor oi papxupouvxei; iv xfj yfj] xo Trvsupa, Kai xo uSwp, Kai xo aipa,
Kai oi xpdi; d<; xo A dcriv. This reading is taken from the Beza-Estienne edition of 1590. 2)
Oxford, Bodleian Library ms Canonici gr. 110 (GA 221lp), a tenth-century ms: oxi xpd<; dcriv oi
papxupouvxei; ev xw oupavw, o mnr|p, oXoyoi;, Kai xo ayiov rrveupa, Kai ouxoi oi xpdi; ev dor. Kai
xpdi; dcriv oi papxupouvx£<; ev xfj yfj, xo 7rv£t>pa, Kai xo uSwp, Kai xo aipa, Kai oi xpd<; ei<; to iv
dcriv. This reading, taken verbatim from Estienne’s 1550 edition, was apparently made after
1854, when the catalogue of the Bodleian manuscripts remarked that the comma is not found
in this codex. 3) Wolfenbiittel, Herzog August Bibliothek cod. 16.7.4° (GA 429apr), ms of the
fourteenth (ap) and fifteenth (r) centuries: oxi xpdi; dcriv oi papxupouvx£<; ev xw oupavw, jtaxqp,
Aoyoi;, Kai rrvsupa ayiov, Kai ouxoi oi xpd? ev dm. Kai xpdi; dcriv oi papxupouvx£<; £v xfj yfj, xo
rrveupa, xo uSwp, Kai to alpa, Kai oi xpd<; d<; xo ev dcriv. The comma is taken verbatim from
Erasmus’ 1522 edition; the rest of verse 8 follows the reading in the body text of the ms
" — 1 —~ ~ —- — & - / ~
[ 1 /2B]. The fact that the person who entered the comma into the margin of this codex used
Erasmus’ edition is evident from three other marginal annotations which remark that Erasmus’
Latin renderings depart from those ordinarily found in the Vulgate: 176v (ljn 2:18):
“yeyovacnv: coeperunt esse Eras.”; 178v (ljn 4:18): “KO/Vacriv: cruciatum Eras.”; 170r (2 Pt
1:15): “pexa xf)v spfpi e^oSov: post exitum meum Eras.” 4) Naples, Bib. Naz. ms II. A, 9 (GA
636ap), a fifteenth-century ms: oxi xpeu; dcriv ol papxupotivxec; ev xw oupavw, 7raxr|p, Aoyoi;, Kai
rrveupa ayiov, Kai oi xpd<; ev eiou Kai xpeic; eiaiv oi papxupouvxec; ev xfj yfj, xo rrveupa, Kai xo iSSwp,
Kai xo aipa, Kai oi xpei^ d<; xo ev eicriv. The comma is taken from Erasmus’ 1522 text, though
omitting ouxoi before oi, possibly by haplography, or perhaps on the strength of the
Complutensian reading; the rest of verse 8 follows the reading in the body text of the ms [1/2].
This is precisely the procedure followed in GA 429; clearly these annotators wanted to change
as little of the text in the manuscripts before them as possible. The fact that all these readings of
the comma are taken from printed editions discounts their status as independent attestations.
Aland, Behnduhn-Mertz and Mink, 1987, 1:165-166; Metzger, 1994, 647-649; Wachtel, 1995,
318-320, identifies the sources of the readings in each of these manuscripts with great acuity.
On 7 February 2010, Daniel Wallace published online his discovery of a fifth Greek codex with
the comma recorded in the margin: the eleventh-century codex Munich, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek Cod. graec. 211 (GA 177apr). The comma is added in the upper margin.
Wallace dates the addition to the seventeenth or eighteenth century; in any case it clearly
postdates the publication of Estienne’s 1551 edition, since it specifies that the comma is found
in verse 7. The text of the addition (oxi xpdi; dcriv oi papxupotivxsc; ev oupavw [sic], nair\p,
Aoyoc;, Kai nveupa ayiov, Kai oi xpdi; d<; xo ev eicri) corresponds closely, but not perfectly, to that
in Erasmus’ third edition, and may have been made from memory. Wallace suggests that the
addition was not noted by the Munster Institut because of the faintness of the ink, which may
not have shown up on the microfilm. See
http://www.csntm.org/tcnotes/archive/
TheCommaJohanneumlnAnOverlooked Manuscript, accessed 17July 2010.
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http://ww.biblefortoday.org/articIes/metzger.litm, accessed 5 March 2010. Khoo defends the comma here (
http://logosresourcepages.org/Versions/johannine.htm, accessed 10 March 2010), employing half-truths such as the following: “The text is found in eight extant Greek manuscripts, and five of them are dated before the 16th century (Greek miniscules 88, 221, 429, 629, 636).” Although all these manuscripts date from before the sixteenth century, the comma occurs as part of the body text only in 629. In all the others the comma has been added in the margin
from printed editions at some time since the appearance of Erasmus’ third edition of the Greek text; see
chapter 1.7 above for further details. Even less accurate are the claims made by
Timothy W. Dunkin (
http://www.
studytoanswer.net/bibleversions/ljohn5n7.html, accessed
6 March 2010: “Metzger and the
UBS have slighted [sic] the actual number of Greek manuscripts which contain the verse. In
addition to the ones listed above, D. A. Waite is reported to have identified manuscripts #634
and Omega 110 as containing the Comma, and Holland notes that the Comma appears in the
margin of #635. Additionally, Waite also identifies at least ten other manuscripts as possibly
containing the Comma, though this is currently unconfirmed. Most interesting of all is the
appearance of this verse in the text of an 8th-century manuscript, Codex Wizanburgensis, as
reported by Dabney. Finally, there are at least two Greek lectionaries (early didactic texts
usually containing copious scriptural citations) in which the Comma appears (Lectionaries
#60 and #173).”
It is to be applauded when professional critics intervene to correct such errors,
such as Jan Krans’ explanation in an online bulletin-board that the eighth-century “Codex
Wizanburgensis,” cited by defenders of the comma as evidence of a conspiracy to conceal early
Greek manuscripts containing the comma, is actually the Latin manuscript Wolfenbiittel, HAJB
cod. Guelf. 99 Weissenburgensis; see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/textualcriticism/message/3976. The strange orthography of
the name of this Codex goes back to Lachmann.
19
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/resource/wallace.htm, accessed 7 August 2010.
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