From: Revcraigh (Revcraigh@aol.com)
Date: Thu Dec 11 1997 - 15:59:27 EST
In a message dated 12/8/97 4:25:17 AM, Paul wrote:
>Second, the majority of manuscripts support the QEOS reading, instead of
>the hOS reading at the start of the creed, QEOS EFANERWQH EN SARKI. I
>read that the problem stemmed from taking the first uncial either as an
>omicron or a theta, the difference being only the absence or the presence
>of the horizontal line in the letter. A good number of old manuscripts
>indicate the horizontal mark may have been added later. Does this
>indicate the mark was very faint and needed to be darkened, or that there
>was a desire to make this more clearly a reference to QEOS?
Question? Does this indicate that QS was a universally understood abreviation
for QEOS?
Blessings,
Rev. Craig R. Harmon.
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