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Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, two of the erroneously considered "great uncial codices", representatives of the Alexandrian text-type, are considered excellent manuscript witnesses of the text of the New Testament. Unfortunately many of todays Linguistic scholars have observed that Codex Vaticanus is reminiscent of classical and Platonic Greek, not Koine Greek. Yet many "critical" editions of the Greek New Testament give precedence to these two manuscripts, and many of modern day translations are based on their text. Even though there are glaring differences between these two manuscripts. A recent scientific comparative study of interest published on these two Alexandrian codices is "The Relationship between Vaticanus & Sinaiticus and the Majority Text in Galatians" by Dr. Graham G. Thomason and "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPLIT TEXT-TYPES FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT" by Dr LESLIE McFALL - both are freely made available on the internet. Historically, the true character of these two Alexandrian manuscripts was quickly and thoroughly challenged by Dean John William Burgon's exhaustive analysis: "It is in fact easier to find two consecutive verses in which these two MSS differ the one from the other, than two consecutive verses in which they entirely agree." [1]
According to Herman C. Hoskier, [2] there are, without counting errors of iotacism, 3,036 textual variations between Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in the text of the Gospels alone, enumerated as follows:
Hoskier noted in his book: "I make a present to Gregory and Souter of the 'provincial' exchange of ως and ωσπερ, παντα and απαντα, ως and ωσει, εναντιον and ενωπιον, εστηκοτων and εστωτων, εαυτου and αυτου, με and εμε, οικιαν and οικον, ετερον and αλλον and αλληλον, πιειν and πειν and πιν, ηυδοκησεν and ευδοκησεν, ευθυς and ευθεως, σπυριδας and σφυριδας, καγω and και εγω, υποκατω and υποποδιον, εαν and αν, απο and υπο, προς αυτους and αυτοις, επι and εις, ινα and οπως." [3]
According to Fee, John has more differences than the other gospels because in Codex Sinaiticus, John 1:1–8:38 and parts of chapters 16 and 21 have early Western Christian writing ancestry. [4]
Codex Sinaiticus is designated by siglum א, and Codex Vaticanus by alpha character B. The following represent scribal corrections:
For sigla of other manuscripts, see List of New Testament uncials.
The list of textual variants that follows below is INCOMPLETE as there are likely over 7,000 discrepencies between the two.
4:23b
6:18b
6:22b
6:25b
6:32b
6:32c
7:4b
7:13b
7:27b
8:1
8:3a
8:3b
8:4a
8:4b
8:5
8:6
8:7a
8:7b
8:8a
8:8b
8:10
8:11
8:12
8:13
8:18
8:22
8:26
8:29
8:34
9:4a
9:4b
9:6a
9:6b
9:9a
9:9b
9:9c
9:10a
9:10b
9:10c
9:12
9:15
9:16
9:17
9:18
9:19
9:21
9:22
9:24
9:26
9:27a
9:27b
9:27c
9:28a
9:28b
9:28c
9:28d
9:30a
9:30b
9:31
9:35a
9:35b
9:35c
10:3
10:4a
10:4b
10:5a
10:5b
10:7
10:9
10:11
10:12
10:14a
10:14b
10:14c
10:15
10:16a
10:16b
10:21
10:23
10:24
10:25a
10:25b
10:28
10:3
10:33a
10:33b
10:34
10:37
10:40
11:4
11:8
11:15
11:19
11:21
11:23a
11:23b
11:24a
11:24b
11:27
11:29
12:1
12:4
12:10
12:11
12:12
12:13
12:17
12:20
12:22a
12:22b
12:29
12:30
12:31
12:32a
12:32b
12:35
12:37
12:38
12:44a
12:44b
12:46
12:48
12:49
13:3
13:4
13:5
13:5a
13:6
13:7
13:10
13:14
13:15
13:17a
13:17b
13:24
13:25
13:27
13:28a
13:28b
13:30a
13:30b
13:30c
13:30d
13:32
13:33
13:34
13:35a
13:35b
13:36a
13:36b
13:39a
13:39b
13:41
13:42
13:44a
13:44b
13:48
13:50
13:54
13:55
13:57a
13:57 b
14:1
14:2
14:3
14:4a
14:4b
14:5
14:7
14:9
14:12
14:13
14:15a
14:15b
14:15c
14:16
14:17
14:19a
14:19b
14:22a
14:22b
14:22c
14:23
14:24
14:26
14:28a
14:28b
14:29
14:35
14:36
15:3
15:4
15:5
15:6
15:11a
15:11b
15:12
15:14
15:15
15:17
15:17
15:17
15:22
15:22
15:27
15:30
15:31
15:31
15:31
16:6
16:9
16:12
17:10
17:15
17:17
18:7
18:14
18:16
19:7
19:10
19:12
19:16
19:22
21:16
21:17
21:19
21:28
21:33
22:1
22:11
22:40
23:3
23:8
23:35
23:35b
23:37
24:2
24:9
24:24
24:26
24:30
24:31
24:35
24:48
25:3
25:17
25:22
26:33
26:50
26:72
27:11
27:33
27:45
27:47
27:48
27:53
27:59
27:60
28:5
28:10
28:15
28:18
4:20
6:43
10:19
10:40
11:1
11:3
11:7
Luke 2:37
Luke 8:3
Luke 8:45
Luke 9:23
John 1:25
John 1,33
John 1:34