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**DMcFadden** · #58 (**permalink**) 09-15-2008, 02:19 AM

I broke down and ordered the book from WTS tonight. It is a photocopy (either of an out of print book or lecture notes from his WTS days). Moises was one of my NT profs in college in the early 70s and my wife had 2 yrs of Greek from him before he went to WTS to teach (after which he went to Gordon Conwell). He has always struck me as an unusually level headed exegete with a solid Reformed rep. What he says about textual criticism should be quite helpful on point to the discussions we have been having here. When it comes, I will try to do a post bringing us up to date. I checked with Lane who said that Moises had already left WTS when he was a student there, so he hadn't read it either (one more reason to shake my head at how old I've gotten and how young some of you theologs really are!).

Adam, like most of us who went through any seminary experience, I share your practice of NT (as well as your comment about the tendencies of BHS) Textual Criticism. However, evidently unlike you, my education never gave the time of day to alternative views and arguments. Hence, my desire to reconsider the issue now. With Bart Ehrman's running around using the CT as proof that the Bible cannot be inspired, it certainly would be "nice" if the TR guys were right after all about the Byzantine tradition providentially preserving the Word of God.

However, that would still not solve the problem of the Johannine Comma. One could be a Byzantine Text person and still dispute the validity of 1 John 5:7 on the grounds that it is missing from most Byzantine mss. Only a KJV person who argued that providential preservation extends to the particular texts used by the KJV translators (regardless of the true story of Erasmus' reasons for putting it into his 3rd edition) would have a final explanation of the infamous "Comma."

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