There is no dichotomy. No one but YOU and other KJVOs believe Jerome authored the prologue CE, and only because you need him to explain why the Comma has no attestation in the Greek mss before the 14th century. Without Jerome, your KJV is not "pure."It is good to see you agree as to the basic dichotomy:
1) Jerome
2) a knowledgeable, skillful, clever and deceptive forger
Kind of like the textual clout needed to insert the scoundrel Epistle to the Laodiceans into the Vulgate text-line, which then made its way into Bibles of various languages for over a millennium, including Wycliffe's!Plus the forger would need textual clout to insert his scoundrel writing into the Vulgate text-line.
Kind of like the guy who willfully sidesteps the evidence that proves:It would definitely help if he was a translator or was someone like Victor of Capra, but he must be dishonest.
1. the Comma,
2. the ending to Rev. 17:8 (and yet is),
3. and the phrase in Rev. 16:5 (and shalt be)
were NOT written by a man named JOHN.
Doesn't matter. What matters is the evidence proving Jerome was not the author of the prologue-CE ascribed to him, and that there were no Greek mss in his day that had the Comma.Do you place him as the author-translator of the Vulgate Canonical Epistles?
Do you have a why?
How about a who? When? Where?
Where are they all? Had there been some Greek mss that Jerome saw with his own eyes that contained the Comma, why weren't ANY of them put aside, saved and preserved? And how is it that no one else went forth with cries of scripture being wiped out?
How is it that the rest of God's word survived the excise-happy hands of those dastardly unfaithful translators?
Therefore Paul wrote his first-person Epistle to the Laodiceans when he was finished writing Colossians. And his words were truthful and accurate.....so much so, that Christians for over a thousand years thought they belonged in the Bible!Ockham offers the much simpler alternative - Jerome wrote his first-person Prologue when he was translating the Canonical Epistles. And his words were truthful and accurate.
Where were the cries that scripture was being dropped, omitted, excised, etc. when Bibles started leaving the Epistle to the Laodiceans OUT?
I got a good laugh when I read that. Coming from you, of all people. HA.Your snarky, gratuitous personal insults are reported.
You obviously think you're making some earth shattering point here by continually bringing this up....like you've got TNC boxed into a corner or something. You had better read your KJV and pay attention to what it says about pride, haughtiness, and 1 cor 10:12 in particular.It looks like your counter to avoid being honest about the Leon Palimpsest missing in your manuscript list.
Oh gawd.A unique darkness descends.