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Old 07-08-2008, 07:58 AM
Steven Avery Steven Avery is offline
 
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Hi Folks,

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Originally Posted by Will Kinney
Thanks for your comments and the references you point out. Good stuff.
Welcome, Will.
Here is a bit more that I can bring over here, where the forum is sensible.

On exegesis, here is John Owen sharing similarly to Will.

http://books.google.com/books?id=C30...J&pg=RA1-PA445
The Works of John Owen

Hereby he hopes to draw off men from the simplicity that is in Christ,
or the plain declaration of the will of God in the gospel,
unto false and foolish imaginations of his own suggestion


And the apparatus puts Augustine as one of the few for the corruption. Yet we have at least three references matching the true Bible from Augustine. So the apparatus is again skewed toward the Alexandrian, giving misinformation. At most, even if the minority reference were found and solid, Augustine would be on both sides.

AUGUSTINE - 3 REFERENCES

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ci..._XIV/Chapter_7
The City of God by Augustine of Hippo Book XIV, Chapter 7

And, “I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102188.htm
Augustine - Letter 188 - To the Lady Juliana (A.D. 416)

Let her rather listen to the apostle when he says: "I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1801127.htm
Augustine - Exposition on Psalm 127

But that which is the house of God is also a city. For the house of God is the people of God; for the house of God is the temple of God....This is Jerusalem: she has guards: as she has builders, labouring at her building up, so also has she guards. To this guardianship these words of the Apostle relate: I fear, lest by any means your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. He was guarding the Church.

Here is a Chrysostom section that supports the true Bible. The translator has it as towards Christ, which appears at least to be the Chrystostom interpretation. The phrase italicized given twice on the page.

http://books.google.com/books?id=hggNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA384
Chrysostom - Homily XXIII

"But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward Christ."

"neither out of wickedness .. nor out of your not believing, but out of simplicity"

Shalom,
Steven