The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers

one exception adjectives are hyphenated (near-by). Consistent usage would therefore support this change to the open form.

Notes to Paper № 139

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good humour, According to Dr Meredith Justin Sprunger the original Papers stated that the apostle Nathaniel “had a good sense of humour for a Jew”, but after it was read the members of the Forum chuckled at this phrase. The next time they obtained this paper from the safe, they discovered the phrase “for a Jew” was deleted. I am assuming that this comment refers to this particular location as it seems to be the closest to providing just such a context.

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Bartholomew, Note that this is the only mention of a Bartholomew in the Urantia Papers. Nathaniel was invited to be one of the apostles by Philip (137:2.6). In the synoptic gospels Nathaniel is always mentioned under the name Bartholomew as an associate of Philip (Matthew 10:3, Mark 3:18 and Luke 6:14). In the gospel of John we have Nathaniel, but no Bartholomew. The name “Bartholomew” is an anglicized form of the Aramaic “bar Tholmai” meaning “son of Tholmai”. It is possible that Nathaniel's father's name was Tholmai and not Bartholomew. However, I did not amend the text here because Dr Sadler is saying that “the manuscript was very clear that it was Bartholomew”.

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Kerioth, In Hebrew ish-keriyoth means “a man of Kerioth”, hence the surname “Iscariot”.

Notes to Paper № 142

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fathers and their children will love each other more, So says also Malachi 4:6: “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

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Abraham and his brother left Ur, The fact of Nahor leaving Ur with Abraham (cf. Genesis 11:31) has been preserved only in the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Massoretic scribes having carefully deleted the reference to Abraham's brother Nahor from the Hebrew “received” text, gladly leaving him with the sun-worshippers in Ur.

Notes to Paper № 143

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he never revealed it, This explains why the story in John 4:6-42 has no parallels in the Synoptics.

Notes to Paper № 145

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Law, In 1955 text: law. See the note on 123:5.3.

Notes to Paper № 147

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evil-doing, In 1955 text: evil doing. While the earliest occurrences (14^th - 16^th centuries) of evil doer and evil doing are open, there has been a clear preference for the hyphenated form since the 17^th century and it is the form approved by both the OED and Webster’s. The closed form, found at three locations in the 1955 text: 159:3.9 188:4.3 188:4.5 is, as far as we can tell, unsupported by any contemporary source. [cf evil-intending in the preceding paragraph which is essentially a coined concept and its form illustrates general Chicago Manual of Style principle of hyphenating adjectival phrases prior to a noun.

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Men, if ... breakers of the law, These words of Jesus are preserved (albeit in a modified form) only in the Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis (V c.) at Luke 6:4 “?? ???? ????? ?????????? ???? ??????????? ?? ???????, ????? ????, ???????, ?? ??? ????? ?? ?????? ???????? ??? ?? ?? ?? ????? ????????????, ??? ????????? ?? ??? ?????.”, or, translated into English, “On the same day, seeing one working on the Sabbath, he said unto him, Man, if indeed thou knowest what thou dost, blessed art thou; but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed, and art a transgressor of the law.”