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Vincent Broman wrote:
>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!

Reading the introduction to Hodges & Farstad's "The Greek New Testament
According to the Majority" and considering their stemmatic reconstructions
of the Pericope Adultera and Revelation, I would say these majority text
adherents also believe that mss should be weighed and not counted.

Stephen Carlson
-- 
Stephen C. Carlson, George Mason University School of Law, Patent Track, 4LE
scarlso1@osf1.gmu.edu              : Poetry speaks of aspirations, and songs
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