"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
