Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

from each other by centuries, which deform by
their corrections every page of this venerablelooking
document.” Codex (#) [Aleph) is “covered
with such alterations, brought in by at least ten
different revisers, some of them systematically
spread over every page.”
Each of these manuscripts was made from the
finest skins and was of rare beauty. “The Codex
Sinaiticus of the fourth century is made of the
finest skins of antelopes, the leaves being so large,
that a single animal would furnish only two... Its
contemporary, the farfamed Codex Vaticanus,
challenges universal admiration for the beauty of
its vellum.”[9]
Evidently these manuscripts had back of them
royal gold. They were reasonably suspected to be
two of the fifty Greek Bibles which the Emperor
Constantine ordered at his own expense. Why
should ten different scribes, through the centuries
have spread their corrections systematically over
every page of the beautiful Sinaiticus? Evidently
no owner of so costly a document would have
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