Your list of evidence for the phrase is essentially the same as my list. So what is your point? I am giving you the very reason why it is excluded by some -- the late day for most of the manuscript evidence. That is a reasonable consideration.
In your disagreement, you are your own authority. That does not work for me.
JD
In a message dated 2/19/2005 5:13:09 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Acts 1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up
If the phase was not in the original, then Luke, in Acts 1, is telling us where his gospel story ended. If it is intented to be in the text, then Luke is, indeed, tying the two publications togather.
Luke is not telling us where the story ended He is telling us the story he wrote about started &ended with such. Therefore to miss the ending is to reveal the true nature of the corrupt text it is a phony! There are some false teachers that say Jesus did not ascend, this would be their prefered text.
Another words the former treatise CONTAINS begin &end!
KJV was right all along not so the corrupt NA
The earliest evidence is P64 dated 60 AD It reads as the KJV
The footnote in the Nestle critical apparatus indicates that the authority for removing this phrase is no more than manuscript Sinaiticus, D, one majuscule MS known as number 52 and one 5th century palimpsect ( MS which has been erased and written over top of We have seen some of the wonderful character of some of these MS you know like Aleph &B the oldest and Best Palimpsects! ). Changes made on the basis of some of the most disfigured texts!
(this looks like God's word!)
The Bible correctors blew it again and on the filmsy evidence of a few disfigured texts. (same crowd that thinks Ellahan killed Goliath!) The overwhelming evidence is that the phrase "and carried up into heaven" is correct. The correctors prefer a palimpsect text over the vast majority of texts.
The Phrase is found in:
B,
C,
E,
F,
G,
H,
L,
S,
T,
V,
Y,
Z,
Delta,
Theta,
Psi,
Omega
p75, and most remaining witnesses.
The removal of these words is proof positive that the Nestle-Aland text is an imposter!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2/19/2005 6:29:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Luke's account ends with Christ "carried up into heaven " Lu 24:51
The phrase is in the Brown/Comfort interlinear; the footnotes of NASV; the Aland/Black Greek text. The phrase is considered to be problematic because it's earliest papyri evidence is of the 200 AD lineage; it's earliest uncial evidence is 300 AD; it earliest numbered uncial document is 800 AD. If the phase was not in the original, then Luke, in Acts 1, is telling us where his gospel story ended. If it is intented to be in the text, then Luke is, indeed, tying the two publications togather. In either case -- there is no false teaching, no doctrinal variations, no nothing.
For the discerning
JD
