Yes, ZH is quoting a la-la source with clickbait head and text on a mid-2023 subject already discussed here.
This is not a "new chapter" but one version of an already extant chapter containing one variant clause in Matt. 12:1, "rub them in their hands", already found in Luke 6:1. No new text at all.
I think the idea was that this is now the oldest copying of the Luke clause into Matthew and IIRC the shakeup is that it makes Syriac manuscripts more likely to have been united in the third century, earlier than expected. No surprise for those who gave high priority to Syriac all along.
It is absolutely not in our interests to hoo-haw this as if new Bible chapters drop all the time. It's probable a manuscript or palimpsest will be found that contains an entirely new variant, I daresay it happens regularly, but in every case the variant has little bearing on the faithful but nonverbatim transmission made by myriads of extant texts.
Unfortunately this chain doesn't speak much to the attempt to unseat the Textus Receptus, just to the general malaise desirous to unseat the whole of holy writ. But be on your guard regardless.
PS: As an example, here's one of my favorites, a long-known appendage to Matt. 20:28 found in codices Bezae and Beratinus, published by the usual suspects Metzger and Ehrman. Has this "new verse" (expanded from Luke 14:8-10) ever changed anything in Christendom? You've probably never heard of it, but there it is in 5th- and 6th-century uncials that read better than the "Vatican-Sin" manuscripts! If it has never caused the slightest ripple in the average Christian's life, it's unlikely that a palimpsest with no new text in it will mean anything:
'But seek to increase from that which is small, and to become less from that which is greater. When you enter into a house and are summoned to dine, do not sit down at the prominent places, lest perchance a man more honorable than you come in afterwards, and he who invited you come and say to you, "Go down lower"; and you shall be ashamed. But if you sit down in the inferior place, and one inferior to you come in, then he that invited you will say to you, "Go up higher"; and this will be advantageous for you.'
Yes, ZH is quoting a la-la source with clickbait head and text on a mid-2023 subject already discussed here.
This is not a "new chapter" but one version of an already extant chapter containing one variant clause in Matt. 12:1, "rub them in their hands", already found in Luke 6:1. No new text at all.
I think the idea was that this is now the oldest copying of the Luke clause into Matthew and IIRC the shakeup is that it makes Syriac manuscripts more likely to have been united in the third century, earlier than expected. No surprise for those who gave high priority to Syriac all along.
It is absolutely not in our interests to hoo-haw this as if new Bible chapters drop all the time. It's probable a manuscript or palimpsest will be found that contains an entirely new variant, I daresay it happens regularly, but in every case the variant has little bearing on the faithful but nonverbatim transmission made by myriads of extant texts.
Unfortunately this chain doesn't speak much to the attempt to unseat the Textus Receptus, just to the general malaise desirous to unseat the whole of holy writ. But be on your guard regardless.
PS: As an example, here's one of my favorites, a long-known appendage to Matt. 20:28 found in codices Bezae and Beratinus, published by the usual suspects Metzger and Ehrman. Has this "new verse" (expanded from Luke 14:8-10) ever changed anything in Christendom? You've probably never heard of it, but there it is in 5th- and 6th-century uncials that read better than the "Vatican-Sin" manuscripts! If it has never caused the slightest ripple in the average Christian's life, it's unlikely that a palimpsest with no new text in it will mean anything:
'But seek to increase from that which is small, and to become less from that which is greater. When you enter into a house and are summoned to dine, do not sit down at the prominent places, lest perchance a man more honorable than you come in afterwards, and he who invited you come and say to you, "Go down lower"; and you shall be ashamed. But if you sit down in the inferior place, and one inferior to you come in, then he that invited you will say to you, "Go up higher"; and this will be advantageous for you.'
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