At 06:16 PM 3/18/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Jim,
> If the 2 Sam 19:7 text were rightly represented in Mt 5:43 while the
>MT was corrupt, you would expect some textual evidence outside the MT to
>support the correct reading. I do not see any such evidence in the BHS
>apparatus.
indeed- but the absence of evidence in BHS (which i of course checked
before posting my query) does not mean that there is no such evidence. BHS
can hardly be called a complete- or even a partially complete edition
containing all variations of the text.