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The Text of the Gospels: Search results for Matthew 3:11

From James Snapps website

However, a special factor seems to have been in play that resulted in the loss of και πυρι in the Byzantine text-
stream: the treatment of Matthew 3:11 in the lectionary. Matthew 3:11 was part of a prominent lection: Matthew 3:1-11 was read at Christmastime, as the lection for the first hour of the Eve of Epiphany. As the old lectionaries show, the text of Matthew 3:11, in the lection, stopped with the mention of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, without including the words “and fire.” This appears to have been a slight liturgical adjustment – probably made for two reasons: first, to focus on positive aspects of baptism, rather than on the baptism in fire which could be construed (as done by Tertullian and others) as a reference to fiery condemnation rather than to the fires of zeal and of testing, and second, to close the lection at the same point as the lection which followed it (Mark 1:1-8).

In manuscript 1273 (the George Grey Gospels), we see a τελος symbol in the text of Matthew 3:11, instructing the lector to stop reading at exactly that point, without pronouncing και πυρι which follows the τελος symbol. It was a natural adjustment for copyists, when making continuous-text manuscripts intended to be accompanied by a lectionary-apparatus and to be used in church-services for lection-reading, to drop the και πυρι to simplify the lector’s task. Thus we see in the evidence a natural progression:
first, the text circulated with και πυρι;
second, the text circulated with και πυρι accompanied by a τελος symbol before και πυρι;

MS 1273, on the last line of the page shown here,
has a red telos-symbol between the words
"Holy Spirit" and "and fire" in Matthew 3:11.
third, και πυρι was excised in copies which were intended to be used by lectors, as a simplification; fourth, copies with the simplified text that had been intended for lectors were used as exemplars for ordinary copies

 

Thank you for the example 37818! Do you know of any more places where the MT is wrong?