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From: Klaus Wachtel 
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On Mon, 18 Mar, Maurice Robinson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Klaus Wachtel wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 13 Mar, Maurice Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > The overwhelming majority of post-10th century minuscules are secondary in
> > > cases such as 1 Jn.2:23 and 1 Jn.3:1, since that mere numerical majority
> > > is not supported by the earlier testimony.
> >
> > May I ask, then, on which earlier testimony the decision for the Byz. text EK
> > instead of XWRIS is based in James 2,18 (except the doubtful evidence of P54)?
> 
> Since I am willing to include in my count minuscules of the 9th and 10th
> centuries, they would be considered of weight in the 2:18 variant. The MSS
> of the 11th and later centuries are not essential toward establishing the
> Byzantine reading.
> 
> According to Tischendorf's 8th edition, EK is supported by K and L among
> the uncials as well as virtually all the minuscules. 


This is true for the Byzantine omissions in 1Jn 2,23 and 3,1 as well. All three 
instances are included in "Text & Textwert", all three have a remarkably pure 
K-attestation, hardly lacking any Kr- or Kx-ms. 

K. Wachtel, INTF Muenster

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