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From: Maurice Robinson 
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On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Klaus Wachtel wrote:

> Even presupposing that POIEIN KALWS can really mean "to do good works" (w=
hich=20
> I doubt, because this rendering ignores that KALWS is an adverb)

I would agree with Klaus on the adverbial nature of KALWS -- the phrase=20
does not mean "to do good works," but simply "you do well" (in your=20
faith-assumption).

> What makes the=20
> Byzantine EK in Js. 2,18 so interesting is the fact that it doesn't fit t=
he=20
> Hortian pattern. Nobody was surprised that Bart Ehrman found a lot of ort=
hodox=20
> corruptions in the Byzantine text, =AD but by scribal blunders like this =
one we=20
> are forced to revise Hort's classical description of the Byzantine text a=
nd=20
> his reconstruction of its history.

I also agree that the EK does not fit what Hort would have concluded=20
about the Byzantine text; but that EK is a scribal blunder does not seem=20
likely nor acceptable in light of scribal tendencies to reject and=20
correct such blunders on a wide scale.


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                       Maurice A. Robinson, Ph.D.
            Associate Professor of Greek and New Testament
              Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
                      Wake Forest, North Carolina
                   
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