Hi TimV.
You said..
I have a couple specific questions about the word tree vs. book in Rev. 22:9
First, could someone please tell me how many existing Byzantine texts that use the word tree? And how many use the word book?
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I don't think there are many Byzantine texts available for the ending of Revelation.
But there are plenty of wittnesses to it in the Latin and possibly other languages.
There are more witness counts that tally the Latin side in some verses. This is one of those places.
It seems that there are more than 5000 Greek texts out there, and I assume that those which contain Rev. 22 in it's entirety are many fewer, but I haven't been able to get even an approximation of how many are out there.
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Many of those 5,000 are mere peices and scraps of paper or velum etc., so most would not have Revelation at all. In fact, the Peshitta[150AD] was done so early that the book of Revelation was not entered into the text.
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