Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New TestamentNestle, Eberhard
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Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament
Nestle, Eberhard
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Textual
We have not yet discovered a manuscript containing exactly Marcion’s
text. The chances of our still doing so are very small in view of the
hatred with which Marcion was pursued. But when the libelli of certain
libellatici have been found, and also a great part of the Gospel of
Peter, we need not despair of finding other lost works as well. Codex
604 is interesting as exhibiting the Marcionite reading, ἐλθέτω τὸ
πνεῦμά σου ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς καὶ καθαρισάτω ἡμᾶς, in the Lord’s Prayer, Luke
xi. 2. The same manuscript omits με λέγετε εἶναι in Luke ix. 20, and
λέγουσα in verse 35. Compare also Jülicher, _Gleichnisreden Jesu_, ii.
5: “Marcion, who perhaps created the Roman text of Luke xxi. 30.”
Footnote 215:
On this passage W.-W. observe: “D ex Latinis forsan correctus.”
Footnote 216:
“Licet _suos_ adiectio sit haeretici.” Tertullian.
Footnote 217:
In the critical notes at the end of this chapter I have cited a number
of Marcion’s readings from Zahn’s work, with the hope that these will
now earn a fuller recognition in our theological commentaries. See
_e.g._ on Luke xviii. 20; xxiii. 2; xxiv. 37; 1 Cor. vi. 20; xiv. 19.
Footnote 218:
See Literature on p. 105 f., to which add Westcott, _Canon_, Part I.
c. iv. § 10.
Footnote 219:
Defending the plurality of the canonical Gospels against the
Marcionites, he says: τὸ ἀληθῶς διὰ τεσσάρων ἕν ἐστιν εὐαγγέλιον
(_Philocalia_, ed. Robinson, 47; Zahn, _GK._ i. 412; PRE^3, v. 654).
From what Origen says, _Contra Celsum_, vi. 51, it would seem that he
himself heard Tatian.
Footnote 220:
Euseb., _Hist. Eccl._, iv. 29, with reference to the Encratites:
Χρῶνται μὲν οὖν οὗτοι Νόμῳ καὶ Προφήταις καὶ Εὐαγγελίοις (Syriac has
אונגליון), ἰδίως ἑρμηνεύοντες τῶν ἱερῶν τὰ νοήματα γραφῶν ...
βλασφημοῦντες δὲ Παῦλον τὸν ἀπόστολον ἀθετοῦσιν αὐτοῦ τὰς Ἐπιστολὰς,
μηδὲ τὰς Πράξεις τῶν ἀποστόλων καταδεχόμενοι. ὁ μέντοι γε πρότερος
αὐτῶν ἀρχηγὸς ὁ Τατιανὸς συνάφειάν τινα καὶ συναγωγὴν οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅπως
τῶν Εὐαγγελίων συνθεὶς Τὸ Διὰ Τεσσάρων τοῦτο προσωνόμασεν· ὃ καὶ παρά
τισιν εἰσέτι φέρεται. Τοῦ δὲ Ἀποστόλου φασὶ τολμῆσαί τινας αὐτὸν
μεταφράσαι φωνὰς ὡς ἐπιδιορθούμενον αὐτῶν τὴν τῆς φράσεως σύνταξιν.
Καταλέλοιπε δὲ οὗτος πολύ τι πλῆθος γραμμάτων κ.τ.λ. In the Syriac
version it runs: But this Tatian, their first head, collected and
combined and framed a (_or_, the) אונגליון and called it דיטסרון, that
is “the combined,” which is in the possession of many till this day.
And it is said of him that he ventured to alter certain phrases of the
Apostle (the plural points in the Syriac are to be omitted) as with
the object of amending the composition of the phrases. And he has left
many writings, etc.
Footnote 221:
Epiphan., _Haeret._, 46, 1 (Pet. 391): λέγουσι δὲ τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων
Εὐαγγέλιον ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ γεγενῆσθαι, ὅπερ κατὰ Ἑβραίους τινὲς καλοῦσι.
Footnote 222:
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