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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…
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Theodore Beza's Annotations at Revelation 1:4, 1:8, 4:8, 11:17, and 16:5
The following is a very lightly edited transcription of Beza’s annotations at Revelation 1:4 as found in his 1598 edition (link)(compare the separate annotations from 1594). 4 A Qui est, &c. ἀπὸ τοῦ ὁ ὢν &c. Nequisquam miretur non respondere constructionem, sciendum est Apostolum ita voluisse exprimere quod scriptum est Exodi 3.14, ubi loquens Dominus…
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The Ge'ez (Ethiopic) Witness to the Text of Revelation 16:5
Statement of the Issue In the last decade, the Ethiopic has sometimes been brought out as an alleged versional witness to Beza’s amended reading of Revelation 16:5. Instead of “εἶ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ὅσιος,” in 1582 Beza argued that the text should be “εἶ ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐσόμενος.” …
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Primasius on the Woman of Revelation 12, the Ark of the Covenant, and the alleged Triadic Declarations
Primasius, Bishop of Hadrumetum (circa A.D. 551), Commentary on the Apocalypse Book I, Chapter I, at Rev. 1:4 Grace to you and peace from God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. Even though according to the apostle “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself,” or as He Himself…