Lectio difficilior potior (Latin for "the more difficult reading is the stronger") is a main principle of textual criticism. Where different manuscripts...
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a perceived difficulty, so the principle has to be abandoned. Lectio difficilior potior Epp, Eldon J., Gordon D. Fee. Studies in the Theory and Method...
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them was a variant of Bengel's rule, Lectio difficilior potior, "the harder reading is better." Another was Lectio brevior praeferenda, "the shorter reading...
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Codified, but simultaneously refuted, by Johann Jakob Griesbach. lectio difficilior potior The more difficult reading is the stronger lectori salutem (L...
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Codified, but simultaneously refuted, by Johann Jakob Griesbach. lectio difficilior potior The more difficult reading is the stronger lectori salutem (L...
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manuscripts into families and subfamilies and favoured the principle of lectio difficilior potior ("the more difficult reading is the stronger"). Johann Jakob Wettstein's...
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before my Father in heaven." Criterion of contextual credibility Lectio difficilior potior Declaration against interest Catherine M. Murphy, The Historical...
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Absurdism Apophatic theology § Christianity Fideism Sola fide Lectio difficilior potior Big lie Harrison, Peter (2017). "'I Believe Because it is Absurd':...
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"Erasmus' Panegyricus ad Philippum Austriae ducem (1504)". Lectio. 7: 445–464. doi:10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.116073. ISBN 978-2-503-58077-7. Emerton, Ephraim (25...
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contextually correct reading in his direct source.' Following the lectio difficilior potior principle, Ostrowski asserted 'betrothed' (обручение) as the original...
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