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To: count-your-change
elling you, it really sounds like you are not reading the Adam Clarke quote in its most critical moment, which is here: "To me there is ample reason to believe that the Codex Alexandrinus originally read “Theos”, God, in this place; but the stroke becoming faint by length of time and injudicious handling, of which the MS. in this place has had a large proportion, some person has supplied the place, most reprehensibly, with a thick black line. This has destroyed the evidence of this MS., as now it can neither be quoted pro or con, though it is very likely that the person who supplied the ink line, did it from a conscientious conviction that “Theos” was the original reading of this MS. I examined this MS. about thirty years ago, and this was the conviction that rested then on my mind. I have seen the MS. several times since, and have not changed my opinion." I know your sources would like to suggest otherwise, but my posted quote does not say what you are saying. How can I reasonably accept that you actually read it? I'm not grandstanding here. I genuinely don't get how you got from Clarke the opposite of what he said. Can you throw me a bone here? Peace, SR
558 posted on 07/20/2012 11:31:23 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

I try to be Precise. I said I had read your reference from Clarke. I then stated what I thought to be the case. It wasn’t drawn from Clarke’s conclusion but what appeared to me.
Clarke thought “theos” had appeared originally in the writing and that it had been retouched. I said I thought otherwise.
Anyone can look at reasonably good facsimiles (I have one in front of me) and decide “theos” was created from the original writing and that makes more sense than a simple retouching of a time worn “theos”.

But on to “I AM” and how that might derived from

And God said to Moses, “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh”. Thus shall you say to the Israelites, ‘Ehyeh sent me to you’”.


561 posted on 07/21/2012 12:49:35 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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