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From: nichael@sover.net (Nichael Lynn Cramer)
Subject: Erasmus, Metzger and the _Comma Johanneum_
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Carlton L. Winbery wrote:
>                   [...]  I first heard the
>material in this part of his [Bruce Metzger's] book on Canon in an address in
>New Orleans.  I asked him specifically at that time would he include the
>Comma Johanneum in that class and he said "No."  His reason was because of
>the lateness (12th cent. in Greek) and the way it got in, a trick played on
>Erasmus.

Prof Winbery, do you recall when you heard this lecture?  The reason I ask
is that there is an interesting footnote here, wrt this well-known story
concerning the Comma Johanneum and Prof Metzger in particular.  The
following appears as note 2 on p291 of the 3rd edition of his _Text of NT_
(1992):

  What is said on p. 101 above about Erasmus' promise to include the _Comma
  Johanneum_ if one greek manuscript were found that contained it, and his
  subsequent suspicion that MS. 61 was written expressly to force him to do so,
  needs to be corrected in the light of the research of H. J. de Jonge, a
  specialist in Erasmian studies who finds no explicit evidence that supports
  this frequently made assertion: see his 'Erasmus and the _Comman Johanneum_',
  _Ephemerides Theologicae Lovabienses_, lvi (1980), pp, 381-9.

Nichael
nichael@sover.net                                               __
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