Thu Feb 15 11:55:51 1996

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huldrychz@aol.com asked:
> My question to the majority text adherents then is, what do you do with this
> excellent dictum- "manuscripts should be weighed, and not counted?"

With no attempt to speak for Z Hodges, I would say to that dictum:
Right on!  But, the unspoken added assumption seems to be that the
witnesses to the Alpha text type are all descended from one late source,
perhaps the conjectural NT edition of Lucian.  This is an essential
part of Hort's argument that the Syrian witnesses should get near-zero weight,
and it has been shown false.  Studies by Lake and others show that
the earliest Alpha text type witnesses are much less unified than
the text type becomes later on, the "Imperial Byzantine text" being
a gradual development.  With the exception of the known genealogy of
the Ka sub-text-type, the early Alphas are not direct descendents
of each other or close relations.

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