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012 - Just what is Family 35?

I trace my own pilgrimage, beginning with the ‘Traditional Text’ and Burgon’s seven ‘Notes of Truth’. It then passed through my own ‘Original Text theory’, which is described. It was the Hodges-Farstad Majority Text’s representation of the evidence for the Pericope Adulterae that caught my attention. As stated in their apparatus, there are three main streams: M 5 , M 6 and M 7 . 7 is always in the majority [except for one five-way split where there is no majority] because it is always accompanied by either 5 or 6 [5 + 6 never go against 7]. This looked to me like three independent streams, where seldom would more than one go astray at any given point. Being the common denominator, 7 is clearly the best of the three, and presumably also the oldest. Then I went to Revelation (in H-F) and noticed three main streams again: M a-b , M c and M d-e . The picture is analogous to that of the PA. Again, being the common denominator, c is clearly the best of the three. If it is the best line of transmission in the PA and Revelation, it just might be the best elsewhere as well.