moses wrote on May 17
th, 2014 at 3:19pm:
If we flip the Bismallah
If we are taking this as what John was shown, including words from a different language, why would he be shown it anything other than the correct way?
moses wrote on May 17
th, 2014 at 3:19pm:
we can see a striking similarity to the Codex Vaticanus, which is widely believed to be the oldest known Greek manuscript still extant, dated circa 350 CE.
This is very misleading. The Codex Vaticanus is a very old scripture of some of the books, but revelation is not one of them. It was added to the document over a millennium later.
Quote:The extant New Testament of the Vaticanus contains the Gospels, Acts, the General Epistles, the Pauline Epistles, and the Epistle to the Hebrews (up to Hebrews 9:14, καθα[ριει); it is lacking 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Revelation. These missing leaves were supplemented by a 15th-century minuscule hand (folios 760768) and are catalogued separately as the minuscule Codex 1957.
moses wrote on May 17
th, 2014 at 3:19pm:
The line above the xi (under the words A.D. 350) is not an underline, but is actually part of the hand-written text.
A line in this context signifies a number, and due to the surrounding words saying it is a number, there is no reason to think that it is anything else.