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Re: Gospels of Matthew without Trinitarian ending
What Hebrew manuscripts of Mathew ?? There are none from the first few centuries. We cannot translate from Hebrew manuscripts of Matthew that do not exist.
Whatever conclusions we may have about the history of the text of Matthew must be based on actual manuscript evidence. Since we have no early Hebrew manuscripts of Matthew and all the manuscripts of Matthew lack any textual variants of Mt. 28:19, there are no manuscripts to support a change to the text.
Furthermore, the quotes from the early church fathers are inconsistent. If they all quoted Mt. 28:19 exactly the same way, we could argue for a strong variant reading. But if the actual quotes have a wide range of changes the entire notion is suspect.
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