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Acts’ 2 Anti-Torah Corruptions Even NIV Fixed. Acts 21:25 & 15:25. Both Known to KJV & 90% of Bibles. as Fraud - prior marginal note was made part of verse in 10th Century See. https://jesuswordsonly.github.io/topi...

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This video focuses upon Fraud in Acts 21:25. In this passage -- which requires reading v 24 -- is Bishop James talking to Paul about the report of Pau's APOSTASIA (Acts 21:21), and he wants Paul to prove publicly he is Law compliant by doing ritual vow at Temple of Nazarite vow and pay several men's fees to do likewise at Temple. The passage of Acts 21:25 and v. 24 in KJV and 90% of Bibles except the NIV and a few others reads:

24 Them take, and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, of which they were informed concerning you, are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written AND CONCLUDED THAT THEY OBSERVE NO SUCH THING SAVE ONLY that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. (Acts 21:25 KJV.)

THe capitalized text was first added in the 10th Century, but is in none of the earlier manuscripts.

So where did these misleading words "concluded they observe no such things" come from in Acts 21:25? Well, the Cambridge Bible School Commentary quoted in Bible Hub on this passage says:

that they observe no such thing, save only The oldest texts omit all these words, and they appear merely to be a marginal comment, echoing in part, but with a negative, the language of Acts 15:5; Acts 15:24. They do not represent any part of the form given in that chapter of the letter of the synod.

Hence, like Acts 15:24, the change in 21:25 came from marginal notes that were added to the text very late. Thus the same explanation explains why both 21:25 and 15:24 are in the KJV.

THis is confirmed Peter M. Head's article "Acts and the Problem of its Texts," from The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting (ed. B.W. Winter & A.D. Clarke), Vol. 1, The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting (Eerdmans: Paternoster, 1993) at pages 415-444, formerly reprinted at Tyndale College's link here but presently not functioning as of 3/28/2020. You can buy the entire book for $42 from Google Books at this link. https://www.google.com/books/edition/...


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Peter Head writes at page 307 -- not in video -- and states purpose of corrupter was to give support to Paul:

"The evidence adduced ... suggests that the [false] Western text must be understood as a thoroughgoing attempt to address the question of Gentile Torah-observance in a more decisive manner than the Alexandrian text allows. The focus is not on table fellowship and food laws, but quite specifically upon the place of Torah in the life of believing Gentiles, and the answer given is negative.[128] [Footnote 128] The importance of harmonising Paul's [negative] attitude to the law with that of Acts would be an important factor in this [falsifying] process. [End Fn. 128] The [false] Western form of the decree emerges as a Christian, ethical document, plainly stating total freedom from Torah. "

The page with this is hosted at this URL in my Airtable:
https://airtable.com/shr1ETzcF5xHhDLe9

Another quote of Peter Head at page 307 is:

"It is clear that ‘keeping nothing of the sort’ in the Western witnesses here" refers to observance of the Torah as a whole; rather Gentile believers should merely assent to the three items given. The terms of the ([false] Western) decree do not in any way enforche Torah observance upon Gentile Christians."

A copy of this page is host at this Airtable url:
https://airtable.com/shrZoye498qTxuPKw

Peter Head says the same corrupting intent was behind another corruption at Acts 15:1 which the KJV and its allies did not accept for some reason, even while accepting the equally obvious corruptions at Acts 15:25 and 21:25. Peter Head explains the purpose of the 10th Century corruption of Acts 15:1 (addition of "AND LIVE" according to custom of Mosaic Law):

"This significantly shapes the context in which Peter’s
statement [in Acts 15:10] ‘Now therefore why do you make trial of God by
putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither
our fathers nor we have been able to bear.’ .... These
alterations result in a presentation of the council as a
discussion of the principle of Torah-keeping among Gentile."

This portion of Head's article appears on page 306, and is available online at this URL according to Fair Use:
https://airtable.com/shrG0MpU8JeAK0hu3