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On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Ronald L. Minton wrote:

> A missionary from Hong Kong asked me tonight why the name JOHN is 
> capitalized in the KJV at Rev. 1:4.  I checked eight copies from different 
> publishers and only two of eight did capitalize the all four letters.
> Is there any Byz or other text reason for this.  I have never heard of any.

My copy of the RV here at the office also capitalizes the name.  There is 
no textual reason for this that I know of.  I imagine that the editors of 
the various editions are trying to indicate by using all caps that this 
verse is the beginning of a major section in the book, similar to the way 
in which each book (in these editions) begins with one or two words in 
all caps (or small caps).

Jimmy Adair
Manager of Information Technology Services, Scholars Press
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Managing Editor of TELA, the Scholars Press World Wide Web Site
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