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To: metmom
If you search on the web, it appears that those verses are not part of the oldest manuscripts but were added some hundred or more years later.

The earliest and original manuscripts were written on papyrus...Papyrus didn't last long and for years and years, those manuscripts were captured by the Catholic church and destroyed...

The oldest Catholic manuscripts extant are written on vellum; animal skins, which would last far longer than parchment manuscripts, which by the way was far, far more costly to produce than papyrus...

The majority texts which are the texts of the Reformation and number into the thousands have this verse...

Pretty much every bible out there has this verse including the Catholic Douay-Rheims version...

1,645 posted on 11/10/2011 7:29:10 AM PST by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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To: Iscool

So I’ve heard.


1,646 posted on 11/10/2011 7:42:08 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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