[Steven Avery]

Hi Folks,

Originally Posted by TimV

First, could someone please tell me how many existing Byzantine texts that use the word tree? And how many use the word book?

We ended up with some discussion of Rev 22:1 9on the terebinth thread.

http://av1611.com/forums/showpost.ph...1&postcount=14
Rev 22:19

Explaining the overview of the wide textual support of "book of life".

If you want exact collations there are some resources that might help, usually you seek them out through textcrit land. They take Hoskier, they multiply by Münster and then they implode the logarithmic function of various notations and analysts.

However, since you know the evidence for "book of life" is not in the Greek manuscripts, what does it matter if there are two dozen or five dozen Greek MS with "tree of life" ? As with "her purification" and the Johannine Comma, the true reading was preserved in the Latin lines and the early church writers, and is clearly the true reading with the NT teaching, fully internally strong and consistent and understandable and solid and beautiful to read and embrace. The Reformation textual giants plowed all the ground for you, leading to the purified Reformation Bible, leading to the pure and perfect King James Bible.

The textcrit world is atomistic, they will dissect and look with microscopes at the most arcane markings here and there, with no comprehension at all of the inspiration and preservation of the word of God, nor its identity in the hands of the ploughman today.

So what is your desire, to identify and know the Scriptures ? Or go into every mundane and arcane question, the microscope of minutiae ?

Shalom,
Steven