Posted: Jun 24, 2020 12:47 pm
Well, I assume that "Matthew" wrote the gospel attributed to him, whoever he might actually have been, yes. Now, if 6:6 is a later interpolation added in by a forger who, given the additional time for diffusion of the Epictetan material, knew of stoicism, I can't do much about that. And up to now, I ve studied NT assuming that what we have was assembled in good faith, not riddled with medieval interpolations and otherwise falsified. I am not enough of a scholar to try and parse the age and provenance of the various passages.