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Beza, Plato, and the "Shall Be" Speculative Restoration at Revelation 16:5
Beza speculatively replaced “ὅσιος” with “ἐσόμενος” in Revelation 16:5. Sometimes advocates of the King James Version (or Scrivener’s Textus Receptus, which was based on the KJV), will try to find some hint that this text existed in some now-lost copies of Scripture. To that end, I’ve done my best to survive the roughly 266 places…
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Euthymius Protasecretis against Images
I came across this beautiful text from a Greek-speaking author with whom I’m not familiar. It is interesting for a variety of reasons, including its opposition to the use of religious images: Euthymius Protasecretis (10th century?), Encomium to St. Theodore Stratelates (d. 319) (Encomium in sanctum Theodorum stratelatem). (7) “Do not be harsh on things you…