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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Dale M. Wheeler wrote:

> Agrees with Maj only -        16.5%
> Agrees with Maj & Alex -      16.5%
>                              ------
> Total Agree with Maj          33.0%
> 
> 
> Agrees with Alex only -       24.0%
> Agrees with Alex & Bzy -      16.5%
>                              ------
> Total Agree with Alex         40.5%

> Also--and I say this in the most kind manner possible--
> the figure of "67% against the Maj text" (that's 24% 
> Alex alone + 43% doesn't agree with anything) doesn't 
> seem to be a fair representation of the data, since 
> one could on the same basis say "58.5% against the 
> Alex text" (with no corresponding statment about the 
> Byz, thus making the actual situation look worse than 
> it is).

That, by the way was the specific point Pickering was trying to make in
his article.  View the same data from within a pro-Byzantine perspective,
and the results shift significantly.


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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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