@holyrope -great insight, it explains why ,rebuked by St John of Damascus on manner,how it was received - now they say the merchant was told to recite,lately I even saw he was told:" to write" ( the latest claim is obviously done in ill effort to present it as inspired scripture,and the idea was born when their scholars were comissioned to read the Bible to find any mentioning of the merchant ,which resulted in them reading St John 's :"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God …
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