Codex Vaticanus

For decades, the book of the Vatican has been touted as the one of the oldest and best manuscripts of the New Testament. But is it?

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Dr. James Scudder
Dr. David Sorenson
Dr. David Brown

Clip of Dr. Scot McKendrick of the British Library used with permission from Adullam Films

For information on this topic, check out, "Neither Oldest, Nor Best" by Dr. David Sorenson

Additional Notes on Vaticanus from Dean John Burgon

"In the gospels alone B (Vaticanus) is found to omit at least 2877 words: to add 536, to substitute, 935; to transpose, 2098: to modify 1132 (in all 7578)"

"We suspect that these two manuscripts are indebted for their preservation, solely to their ascertained evil character, which has occasioned that the one eventually found its way, four centuries ago, to a forgotten shelf in the Vatican library"

"In short, these two codices are old simply because, first, they were written on extremely expensive and durable antelope skins, and secondly, they were so full of errors, alterations, and deletions, that they were never used by true believers and seldom even by their own custodians. Thus they had little chance of wearing away."

Excerpts from his book, "The Revision Revised" (1881)