"The famous manuscript Vaticanus (written about AD 325-350 and
considered by many modern scholars to be the most important manuscripts
in existence) is believed to have been in the Vatican sometime before
1475.
The polyglot text itself, however, shows no dependence on vaticanus."
Pg. 228 A Visual History of English Bible Daniel Brake
This dispels a myth that many of your pastors were indoctrinated with.
They, like myself, were taught that the earlier church was ignorant of
the "older and better manuscripts" which are use to justify removing
bible verses from the modern English bibles. (Mark 16:9-20, John
7:59-8:11 etc.etc.) the reality is, even the scholars behind the roman
catholic Greek New Testament "complutesian polyglot" where well aware of
this manuscript and had obviously rejected it. Our modern bibles are
based upon manuscripts which Christendom rejected for 1800 years.
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Hi saints. This really is not true about the Catholic bibles and codex Vaticanus. The whole story is not being told. The older Catholic bibles like the Douay-Rheims 1610 and Douay 1950 were much better than the modern Catholic versions like the St. Joseph NAB 1970 and the New Jerusalem bible 1985. These more modern ones, along with the ESV, NIV, NASB, NET, Holman and most modern "Evangelical" versions ARE based primarily on the Vatican mss. and the footnotes DO cast doubt on John 8 and Mark 16.
The Vatican is directly involved in creating this inter confessional UBS/Nestle-Aland ever changing critical Greek text. They are all based on the same texts and often reject and add to the Hebrew as well.
See Part One for documentation and examples and then Two for verse comparisons. Here is my own article "Undeniable Proof the ESV, NIV, NASB, Holman Standard, NET etc. are the new "Vatican Versions"
http://brandplucked.webs.com/realcatholicbibles.htm
Hi there, brother Will.
Your first sentence is a little vague. But everything you have stated agrees with me and we have agreed on this in the past. God bless you for your incites :)
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