The Identity of the Text the New Testament Autographes.

It is such a small, insignificant variant that most commentaries don't even mention the obvious omission.


Matthew 3:11b

TR WH NU βαπτίσει ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ καὶ πυρί

“he will baptize in the Holy Spirit and fire”​

א B C L W
all versions​

variant βαπτισει εν πνευματι αγιω

“he will baptize in the Holy Spirit”​

Majority text
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The omission might be a scribal attempt to simplify a difficult statement (how would Jesus baptize in fire?). The expression is probably a hendiadys (one thought expressed by two words); in other words, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a fire baptism, a baptism that brings purification (see Zech 13:9; Mal 3:2).

Philip W. Comfort, New Testament Text and Translation Commentary: Commentary on the Variant Readings of the Ancient New Testament Manuscripts and How They Relate to the Major English Translations (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008), 6.

 

In context that would be, "in Hell".

The saved listening to John would be inundated as Jesus' church at Jerusalem, when Jesus baptized his church entity that He had founded and organized, on the Day of Pentecost. He Anointed the Most Holy place, once and for all. Daniel 9:24g.

The lost who were listening to John would be inundated by being immersed in the fires of Hell.

Matthew 3:7-12, in context:

"7 "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

11I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

"Fire is mentioned three times and before and after it is mentioned in vs 11, and they all have to do with, "the wrath of God to come", vs 7.

 

This from Philip Mauro, who said this sort of like what I did, when I said, "regardless of what version you use you still have to reference back to the King James, or similar, to see what God said."

Philip Mauro would advise checking verses that differ from the King James, with other reliable sources.

Would that be Family 35, in you case,
if you were to double check a verse in the original?

ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΕ GREEK TEXT OF THE NEW TESΤΑΜΕΝΤ
/K r/ Family 35 Textform, PDF.


(His caps) from: Philip Mauro – Preterist Archives (I am not a Preterist).

"THE GREEK TEXT UPON WHICH IT IS BASED IS SO CORRUPT,
THAT IT IS NOT SAFE TO ACCEPT ANY READING
WHICH DIFFERS FROM THAT OF THE A.V.

UNTIL THE READER HAS ASCERTAINED
THAT THE CHANGE IN QUESTION
IS SUPPORTED BY PREPONDERATING TESTIMONY."

That is from Philip Mauro's book, Which Version, from 99 years ago (1924).

To me, he's hit the nail on the head about the big controversy, and this is was 70 some odd years before Ruckman published his books on the 90s.

 

Bible Versions Disc Board-Robinson-Pierpont John's Gospel with PA chart

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