The Chester
Beatty Papyri. These manuscripts, purchased by Mr. Chester Beatty
from dealers in Egypt in 1931, have been proclaimed as “the greatest discovery
of new Biblical manuscripts, at least since the Freer collection, and possibly
since the Codex Sinaiticus, was made.’’8
The reason for this judgment is the fact that these parchments go back at least
one hundred years earlier than any other extant manuscript. They are also in
codex form, which proves that the New Testament books were bound together in a
collected form at this early date, about 150 years after the Revelation was
written.
8 Miller, op. cit., p. 200, quoted from Kenyon, Recent
Developments in the Textual Criticism of the Greek Bible, 1933, p. 51.
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