The First Thing I Noticed - Two Typos

 

 Steal a forgery and make the Tsar pay for it, then get Britain to pay Stalin for it.

 "Aleph, a fraud, a blatant fraud.
B, the Vaticanus twin..."

 Tischendorf just had too many co-inky-dinks in his narrative to be believed.

Last night, I was getting a little tired after a day of correcting and improving The Bible Book. I was sipping Brazilian coffee, pour-over of course, and looking at posts. I discovered two typos right away. I missed the "e" on one, literally on the number one, and a beginning quotation mark. I said to Sassy, "What a world! What a world!" I had just finished looking for a source, which was on Google, not in the leaflet I was reading.

Thus my little digression on typos. They multiply with age, like those skin anomalies that keep my dermatologist well fed.

The dramatic part of all this is not only a greater appreciation for the King James Version, but also an unraveling of the Great Codex Fraud. We have two giant codices (codex = bound book), Aleph and Vaticanus, vellum (skin) and bound, neither one having a definite birth or any children. The person connected to two of great codices is Count Tischendorf, really the Count Dracula of text studies, sneaking around, draining the blood of innocent people at night, feeding his ego.

Let me rehearse the story of the "finding" of Sinaiticus in or around a monastery library. 

1. Tischendof found a basket of codex pages (unbound!), a portion of the "world's oldest Bible" destined for the fire.
2. The fire might have been for warming the library or just for burning the garbage. Scholars are divided, since animal skin (vellum) does not burn well and scholars do not destroy ancient books.
3. He rescued them, created a self-glorifying book about them, and named them after his Roman Catholic sponsor and king.
4. He came back much later and took the rest of Aleph to the Tsars for "copying" and kept it there. In reality, #3 and #4 are called "stealing" in the Ten Commandments.
5. A known forger said Aleph was his own work, created for the Tsar but artificially aged. Several early witnesses said the "world's oldest Bible" had white skin and was supple - pretty amazing for 1500 years. Like Madonna's skin, it does not bear a close examination.
6. Tischendorf also got to see and write about Codex Vaticanus.
7. Aleph and Vaticanus became the excuse for replacing the Majority (Traditional, Byzantine, Textus Receptus, Ecclesiatical) Text with the patchwork (now called eclectic) Westcott-Hort text.
8. Westcott-Hort, like Tischendorf, were sneaky liars who forced their own text on the 1881 KJV revision, overall a failure but 50 years later the new way to publish the Greek New Testament. All the colleges and seminaries follow Westcott-Hort in the name of Nestle-Aland, the modern stooges.
9. All objections to this con job have been silenced under a blanket of personal attacks.
10. The modern text critics ignore dealing with this swindle and praise each other, but the overwhelming majority of Bible readers still use the King James Version. 

Westcott-Hort came up with their own patchwork or "eclectic" Greek New Testament, basically the one all Lutheran college and seminary students use. TLH used the KJV, but the newest WELS worship book is all New NIV.

 This is how the WELS New NIV was snipped and clipped together, so they warned members about snip and clip Bibles! Those guys are so much fun when they are drinking, which is most of the time.