Codex Vaticanus

Nonetheless, we have found bound copies of the Old and New Testament as early as the 4th century AD, so less than 300 years after the text had been written.

These are found in two very early documents called Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus.

Codex basically means book, a bound volume.

Now, these two documents both date back to AD 325 to 350, so we know what copies of the Bible looked like less than 300 years after the text was written because we still have some of them.

But I think it's important to talk about some of these so that you can know that they don't affect Christian theology.

For example, there is a variant found in John 1, verse 3.

It's the section that teaches, "...apart from him," that is, from Christ, "...nothing came into being." Now, the word nothing is translated from a Greek phrase that's two words, literally meaning not one, and that agrees with Codex Vaticanus.

That's what it says.

We're definitely going to be taking a look at the great unseals.

Codex Vaticanus, for example, that's a very important one that we're going to be taking a look at.

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We've got the Dead Sea Scrolls, they preserved the Old Testament, many texts, many texts centuries before Muhammad, and we've got major Christian communities that ensured that a lot of manuscripts would be preserved.

We have Codex Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and they come from the 300s, about 300 years before Muhammad, and we have them even to this day.

So here is the dilemma for our Muslim friends: if the Bible, if the Bible was reliable in Muhammad's day, then the teachings contradict the Quran, and they do.

But then if they wanna argue and say, "No, it wasn't, uh, uh, reliable," well, then if it had already been corrupted, why does the Quran affirm the Torah and the Gospels and direct people to look at them to what God has revealed in it?

All right.

The name of the text is Vaticanus.

where do you suppose that text came from? Where do you suppose that text lives? You know, the Vaticanus text.

And they took that text and they said, now what we're going to do is we're going to make a few changes here.

Nothing really serious, just a few minor changes.

And the manuscript evidence is overwhelming.

P46, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, all read Canaan.

Later scribes harmonized it to neon under the pull of Colossians, but the original word is canos, which means the new self is not you, version 2.0.

It is not an upgrade.

and with more sort of seemingly mythological elements later the gospels go to.

Mark's gospel, although if you read it, it will have post-resurrection appearances, the earliest manuscripts of Mark's gospel, so Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, don't have what they call the long ending.

It just ends with the women at the tomb.

And that's where the gospel ends.

Some of these very ancient versions of the Septuagint have survived until our time.

In fact, we have the entire Septuagint contained in what are called Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, and these date back to the year about AD 325 to 350.

So we have very ancient copies of the entire Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament of the Bible, and these are about 700 years older than the complete Masoretic Text.

In fact, we have the earliest fragments of the Septuagint go back to around 150 BC, very shortly after the text was actually translated.

The reason I say that is some translations disagree.

You have what's called the older text and you have the majority text and Tectus Receptus, Vaticanus Codex, and Icanus, and all these different...

Some of them don't have it, some do, but you look at early church father writings.

For me, the biblical principle is clear as well.