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On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Professor L.W. Hurtado wrote:

> Reading Epp carefully shows that he offers an inference which is 
> based on a number of supporting reasons and accompanying evidence.  
> There isn't the evidence to falsify or verify empirically the 
> inference, but it isn't offered in a vacuum.  An inference isn't an 
> argument from silence.

Of course, if someone else can make an entirely different inference based
upon precisely the same data plus perhaps other supporting considerations
which were not taken into account by the first scholar, then which
inference is necessarily better than the other?  That is what was my point
on this matter; I do not consider Epp's inference as proven beyond a
reasonable doubt, and my own inference regarding the pre-fourth century
papyri as more likely reflecting the state of the text in Egypt at that
time still remains equally plausible.

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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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