10-07-2010, 05:54 AM
It is important to note that Codex Vaticanus and Codex Siniaticus survived to the 19th Century because they were stored away in some dry, hidden places for 1400 years prior to their "discovery" in the 19th Century. The original New Testament was written hundreds of years earlier, copied, used, worn out, or desctroyed over the centuries prior to the 4th Century. The oldest surviving texts are not necessarily the most accurate. The most accurate are those that are faithful to the lost original autographs.
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