“Not really. There are only a handful that are both long and truly ancient. The others are fragments or “newer”.”
So the article “THE” would still be incorrect. For thirty years, to those who say, “THE Greek,” I have been asking, “WHICH Greek is THE Greek?” (That is, that they happen to be referring to.) I know what I’m asking. My major in college was Manuscript Evidence. You can, any day of the world, purchase more than a dozen Greek NT editions, all of them having variations from the others.
You wrote:
“So the article “THE” would still be incorrect. For thirty years, to those who say, “THE Greek,” I have been asking, “WHICH Greek is THE Greek?” (That is, that they happen to be referring to.)”
You’re making a mountain out of a mole hill here. Unless you can find a Greek ms. that has “father” in caps, then you’re still just making amountain out of a molehill in regard to my actual comment because this is what I wrote: “You think it’s in caps in the Greek mss.?”
“I know what I’m asking. My major in college was Manuscript Evidence. You can, any day of the world, purchase more than a dozen Greek NT editions, all of them having variations from the others.”
Actually, the variants of importance are few and far between.