The Sacred Writings of St. John the Apostle: The Biblical Scholarship Series on the New Testament Writing Modern Received Eclectic Text Compared to the Early Papyri and Uncials (4) 2nd. Edition

By Rev. Dr. Henry B. Malone

Written for Pastors and serious Bible scholars to give them more time in the Greek text. The first question for the serious Bible scholar should be "What is the text?" Only then are you ready to move on to "What does it mean?" The Sacred Writings of St. John the Apostle pr

• Language: English
• Publisher: Authors Press
• Release date: Jan 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781643147925

Rev. Dr. Henry B. Malone

Pastor Hank or simply Pastor is my preferred identification. I was born in Whittier California. We moved to Kirkwood Missouri and then for about one year I grew up as the only white boy in my class in Gallup, New Mexico. This was when I was 11 or 12 and I had a fight every day going to and leaving school. This was more learning how to fit and live together with us kids trying to determine their way and place. I knew hard times as a kid and worked selling papers. They were 7 cents and the paper boy got to keep 2 cents. That was about $1.50 to $2.00 a night in the cold. We were poor and often the money I made would put the food on the table. My step-father was a shoe repairman and he worked at that trade until he was 92. We, my two sisters, brother and I, went to live with my grandfather and grandmother in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis after about a year of living in Gallop. For high school I attend a boarding school, St. John's Academy in Winfield, Kansas. I loved sports and our family of about 20 kids in my class. This was a coed academy. My final year I was the Academy Student Body President. I lettered in baseball three years and basketball one or two. Later I went to Columbia Missouri and met my wife Dianne. We got married in 1966 and had twin daughters right away. We had two more daughters. We have today four grandsons and one granddaughter. My wife is my rock and happy half. We have been married for about 56 years. Kids mean a lot to me and my chapel times with the preschoolers still are the best moments in ministry. I got my PhD in family counseling while in Palms, Michigan. There was nobody doing counseling and there was a lot of need. I learned as I went and came to realize that psychology is really only a way for people to coop with the problems of the day. It really doesn't fix much. The pastor's tools of confession and absolution often fixed the real problem, the need for forgiveness. I enjoyed teaching at the Lutheran Heritage and South Sudanese Lutheran Church Seminary in Yambio for two weeks. I also enjoyed a really cold beer the last day there. I taught the Gospel of John. That was only about three years ago. I normally try to watch a film each night during the pandemic to breakup the day. I am also work on the next book, "The Sacred Writings of St. Matthew vol. 1" My goal is to continue this project comparing the Greek text until all of the New Testament writings are complete. I love preaching and being a pastor and counselor in ministry. Doing the studies in Greek keeps me in God's Word.

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Acknowledgements

My Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ has seen fit to give me the time, resources, interest, and knowledge to do this work. I sincerely give thanks for His wonderful grace and word—to Him be the glory forever!

Without the patience and assistance of my wife Dianne and family including my grandsons this book would never have happened. They have given me the time, and space required for this effort and have done much of the proofing of it.

Certainly Professors from Concordia Seminary St. Louis, Wayne Schmidt, James Voelz, and Louis Brighten deserve a special thanks for their training and encouragement in my Greek development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Authors Preface

Introduction to the Book of Revelation

The Author of Revelation:

Location and Dating of the Writing:

Earliest and Best Papyri and Unicals used in this Manuscript:

Ways of Interpreting the Visions:

General Overview:

Note of the Text Compiler / Editor / Translator on the use and purpose of this writing:

Notes on Text production and reading:

Text of Revelation

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Introduction to the Epistles of John

1 Jn. 1

1 Jn. 2

1 Jn. 3

1 Jn. 4

1 Jn. 5

2 Jn. 1

3 Jn. 1

Introduction to the Gospel according to St. John

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Appendix A

Abreaviations

a. nomen sacrum and other abreavations

b. parsing abreavations

Greek letters used as numbers

Appendix B

The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts used in This Work:

Codices and Early New Testament Papyri and Uncials for Revelation

Codices and Early New Testament Papyri and Uncials for the Epistles of John

Codices and Early New Testament Papyri and Uncials for the Gospel κατα John

Codex Alexandrinus (A)

Codex Sinaiticus (א)

Codex Vaticanus. (B)

Appendix C

Bibliography

Foreword

The Sacred Writings of St. John the Appostle

Scholar’s Edition

The Scholar’s Editions is

written for clergy and lay people interested in discovering and comparing the original text with today’s modern translation. With the evidence of early manuscripts, you are able to determine the reliability the modern Greek Eclectic Received Text and modern translations.

This work is written for those who know Biblical Greek, those who are learning the Biblical Greek, as well as those who are willing to work with the basics to further their knowledge in the Scriptures. It is written so that the readers additional investigations of the New Testament Scripture can be added to the text using the electronic format, available for use by all who purchase this book. It is hoped that the reader will develop his personal commentary and notes in the text provided. It can be gotten upon request from the author.

This is written to inform the serious Bible student, who should compare the ancient text to today’s array of Bibles and interpretations of the text; and understand why and where they differ and yet are the same witness with good textual reliability.

It is written to give pastors help with their Greek, so that more time can be spent on what the text says in the Greek to enrich your message to your people, while proclaiming, Thus says the Lord,… Stay faithful to the meaning of the text.

This text begins with St. John’s first writing the Book of Revelation. His second writings were the Epistles. The 2nd Epistle acts as the cover letter for the 1st Epistle, while the 3rd Epistle is an addendum to make special arrangements for the trip he is planning to take. The final writing of St. John is the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St. John.

In the days of the Renaissance, the French scholar Erazmus from six or seven minuscules (in the possession of Forben at Basel in the early 17th century) prepared the first printing of the the Greek New Testament. Before this date, all Greek New Testaments were hand written copies of copies. This work by Erazmus, therefore is the first eclectic printed text. Only miniscule number one, used occasionally by Erazmus is considered to have genuine value. Doctor Reuben Swanson suggests that perhaps miniscule two deserves more credit then it has received. In haste to be the first to publish a printed text, it became necessary for Erazmus to translate the last few chapters of the Apocalypse from the Latin vulgate to Greek. His Greek sources we’re deficient in the Apocrypha text. Erazmus’ Greek edition for the New Testament became the basis for all subsequent early printings. Other like Robert Stephanous, Beza and others continued to modify the text. The 1633 edition of these texts came to be called the Textus Receptus (received text). All critical editions from then to the current critical editions have been attempts to improve upon the Textus