Gospel of Mark 1.2 · 1.2

<p>The composite quotation runs Malachi 3:1 into Isaiah 40:3, but is credited to Isaiah alone. Our frozen text reads <span class="gk">Ἡσαΐᾳ</span> — Isaiah, singular. The Textus Receptus, and so the King James, reads "the prophets": readers of the two are looking at different sentences here. Which manuscripts carry which reading is what a critical apparatus records, and ours is not yet transcribed.</p><p><span class="gk">ἄγγελος</span> is simply a messenger — the word for a human courier before it is the word for an angel. English splits the two senses into separate words and so hides that Mark uses the ordinary one, and that it is the same root standing inside <span class="gk">εὐαγγέλιον</span> in the line above.</p>

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