Thank you for answering my initial question so well. However, you
answered what I asked, not what I meant to ask. So please forgive me and
let me rephrase my question.
I will agree that the phrase KAQARIZWN PANTA TA BRWMATA (making clean
all foods) is in the MSS. However, why do translators insert the phrase
"Thus he declared" [NASB, NWT] or "In saying this, Jesus declared ..."
[NIV] since this is not in the text? I am sure that translators have
their reasons. Does anyone know what those reasons are, as opposed to
just leaving it "cleansing all food?"
NASB --
18 And He said to them, ÇAre you so lacking in understanding also? Do
you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot
defile him,
19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and
[7]is eliminated?È (Thus He declared *all foods *clean.)
NIV --
18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters
a man from the outside can make him `unclean'?
19 For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out
of his body." (In saying
this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")
Thank you.
Mike Hawkins
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kdlitwak [SMTP:kdlitwak@concentric.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 1997 3:43 PM
> To: Hawkins, Mike
> Cc: 'B Greek'
> Subject: Re: Mark 7:19 - He Declared All Foods Clean
>
> In the opinion of many scholars, based on an analysis of ancient
> MSS
> and scribal tendencies, the handful of MSS used in forming the Greek
> text behind the KJV, usually classified (by those who accept such
> clasifications) as belonging to the Byzantine text-type or Byzantine
> text-family, are inferior in quality. That they may lack this phrase
> does not contradict the overwhelming MSS evidence in favor of its
> inclusion. Multiple text-tpes, inlcuding Alexandrian and Western,
> both
> clearly contain this phrase, and it should be accepted as original.
>
> Ken Litwak
> GTU