Matt 28 - Mat 28:18-20 - Profound "Trinitarian" passages in Scripture.

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Mat 28:18
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Mat 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20
teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
This is one of the profound "Trinitarian" passages in Scripture. However, the Shem Tov reads differently: (Matt. 28:18 Shem Tov) Yeshua drew near to them and said to them: To me has been given all power in heaven and earth. (Matt. 28:19 Shem Tov) Go (Matt. 28:20 Shem Tov) and (teach) them to carry out all the things which I have commanded you. I am not a huge proponent of the Shem Tov. However, one distinct problem we have is that the extremely ancient copies of Matthew are missing the last chapter or two. So we cannot confirm the precise wording of this text by looking at the oldest manuscripts.

The witness of Eusibius is very compelling: According to Conybeare: "Eusebius cites this text of Matthew 28:19 again and again in works written between 300-336AD, namely in his long commentaries on the Psalms, on Isaiah, his Demonstration Evangelica, his Theophany, ...in his famous history of the Church, and in his panegyric of the emperor Constantine. I have, after a moderate search in these works of Eusebius, found eighteen citations of Matthew 28:19, and always in the following form:

*Go ye and make disciples of all nations in my name, teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you.*"

Conybeare proceeds: (In Hibbert Journal, 1902): "It is evident that this was the text found by Eusebius in the very ancient codices collected fifty to a hundred and fifty years before his birth by his great predecessors. Of any other form of text, he had never heard and knew nothing until he had visited Constantinople and attended the Council of Nice. Then in two controversial works written in his extreme old age, and entitled: *Against Marcellus of Ancyra,* and the other *About The Theology Of The Church,* he used the common reading after Nice. One other writing of his also contains it, namely a letter written after the Council of Nice was over, to his see of Caesarea."

We know that after the ascension of Yeshua people were baptized in the name of Yeshua Messiah, not according to any trinitarian recipe Acts 2:38, 8:16, 10:48, 19:5).

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