Let's break this down.....
Family 35 is to be the identity of the New Tesramennt text.
Do you hold to the view that Pickering has reproduced the autographs? The answer helps me understand your view of f35.
The constant witness being the text which all manuscript types agree at 100%.
Which manuscript has the constant witness?
But constant witness, I am assuming you are saying that is same the autograph witness. Did Pickering come up with the constant witness?
A "witness" is the the text of manuscript. Family 35 doesn't not have the text across manuscripts. So what is the constant witness? If it has to be at 100% agreement, then your claim is f35 readings are found in all "text types"...[which is a term without meaning now in the rapidly changing field of textual criticism]... You will say no..."we don't expect to see omissions." Your flaw in this logic is that omissions or additions outside of f35 should be ignored. When f35 has many additions to the early witness of manuscripts. To say it has the constant witness, you must show what text is the witness. Pickering claimed to have done such? Do you agree? Your claim can not be tested unless you can point a text and say this is the constant witness. It can be found in all "text types". Which cannot be done since their is no Alexadrian, or Western text type
The acceptance of f35 as the text is a presumption that can only be proven if you start with the belief that f35 is the best and then set out to prove that, only by using the f35 as the standard and judging the rest. No method of textual criticism ever widely accepted will lead to f35 being the witness of the autographs. It ignores scribal habits as well.
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