Re: Is Maj. Text easier to read?

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Fri Sep 11 1998 - 18:51:00 EDT


At 10:27 PM 9/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I know I am a child here, just a struggling little Greek. But I have found the
>Majority Text easier to read. The word order is more comfortable, and it
>seems less elliptic. (I am only speaking of the first few chapters of John.)
>Anyone else notice this?
>
>William Boyd

This is perhaps the key indicator of its lateness and inferiority- because
one of the primary rules of text criticism is "the more difficult reading is
to be preferred".

(Among other rules, to be sure).

Best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology
jwest@highland.net

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