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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, DC PARKER wrote:

> > In the case mentioned, there certainly seems to be evidence to that 
> point.> I would not suggest in the absence of conflicting Greek 
> testimony,> however, that two variant readings in the same unit 
> among OL MSS would> imply a "lost" Greek variant no longer extant 
> among the Greek MS> tradition, but that such likely reflects intra-OL 
> variation instead.
> > 
> Here I seek clarification.
> 
> Are you saying that you would only consider the versional evidence 
> as testimony to an already attested variation among Greek MSS, or 
> just that you would not consider it _here_ as evidence of a Greek 
> variant, were there not already a variation among Greek MSS?

The latter.  Certainly in the former instance there are cases where the
versional testimony may be traceable to a lost variant not found among the
Greek MSS (which can sometimes be deduced from the nature of the versional
variants when the only cause for such seems to be Greek variation, even if
none is any longer extant).  However, I would be quite suspicious of
conflicting versional testimony in the absence of a known Greek variant
_if_ there were no indications of such from reconstruction of the
presumed Greek archetype of each variant in the version at the given unit.

> That is, would you reject on principle the possibility that a variant 
> cognomino/voco attested a lost Greek variant epikaleo/kaleo?  Or do 
> you just think that it could not be established here?

In that particular case, the difference seems more likely to reflect a
Greek variant, even if no Greek testimony exists.  Other cases, however,
might not be as strong in this regard.

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