"The Codex Sinaiticus
has been corrected by so many hands that it affords a most
interesting and intricate problem to the palaeographer who wishes to disentangle
the various stages by which it has reached its present
condition?" Kirsopp Lake,
Codex Sinaiticus - New
Testament volume; page xvii of
the introduction
This from a PROponent?
Tischendorf said he "counted
14,800 alterations and corrections in Sinaiticus."
Alterations, more alterations, and more alterations were made,
and in fact, most of
them are believed to be made in the 6th and 7th centuries.
Tischendorf inspected
the document and said "On nearly every page of the manuscript
there are corrections and revisions, done by 10 different
people."
Tischendorf "?the New
Testament?is extremely unreliable?on many occasions 10, 20,
30, 40, words are dropped?letters, words even whole sentences
are frequently
written twice over, or begun and immediately canceled. That gross
blunder, whereby
a clause is omitted because it happens to end in the same word
as the clause
preceding, occurs no less than 115 times in the New
Testament."
CORRECTED THRU OUT ALL AGES
Kirsopp Lake says there were three
groups and even a four groups of correctors
that altered the codex. First, there were the "post Caesarean" possibly even those
"at the monastery of St. Catherine?s on Mt. Sinai." Second,
there were "the
intermediate correctors,
of which certainly the earliest, and possibly all belonged
to Caesarea. They are
probably no earlier than the fifth nor later than the seventh
century." Third, there are the early correctors, all probably "belonging to
the
forth and certainly no later than the fifth century."
Finally, the latest
correctors altered the
manuscript probably in the twelfth century.
Maybe this is where the saying came from?
Too many cooks spoil the broth
