From: Paul S. Dixon (dixonps@juno.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 1997 - 12:00:22 EST
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:59:27 EST Revcraigh <Revcraigh@aol.com> writes:
>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?
Yes.
Paul Dixon
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