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The New Testament
 
Translated from the Sinaitic ManuscriptDiscovered by Constantine Tischendorf at Mt. SinaiBy H. T. Anderson, 1918
 
Copyright, 1918
 
Cincinnati: The Standard Publishing Company
 
THE NAMES AND ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PAGE
 
THE GOSPEL
 
ACCORDING TO MATTHEW ...................................... 7
 
ACCORDING TO MARK .......................................... 47
 
ACCORDING TO LUKE .......................................... 73
 
ACCORDING TO JOHN ......................................... 117
 
THE ACTS ....................................................... 149
 
ROMANS ......................................................... 192
 
I. CORINTHIANS ................................................. 208
 
II. CORINTHIANS ................................................ 224
 
GALATIANS ...................................................... 235
 
EPHESIANS ...................................................... 240
 
PHILIPPIANS .................................................... 246
 
COLOSSIANS ..................................................... 250
 
I. THESSALONIANS ............................................... 253
 
II. THESSALONIANS .............................................. 257
 
I. TIMOTHY ..................................................... 259
 
II. TIMOTHY .................................................... 263
 
TITUS .......................................................... 266
 
PHILEMON ....................................................... 268
 
HEBREWS ........................................................ 269
 
JAMES .......................................................... 281
 
I. PETER ....................................................... 285
 
II. PETER ...................................................... 290
 
I. JOHN ........................................................ 293
 
II. JOHN ....................................................... 297
 
III. JOHN ...................................................... 298
 
JUDE ........................................................... 298
 
REVELATION ..................................................... 300
 
PREFACE
 
HENRY T. ANDERSON, the distinguished author and
 
scholar, needs nolengthy introduction to American readers.
 
His former translation of theNew Testament has made his name
 
familiar to all Bible students. He wasblessed with a fine
 
classical education; and such was his devotion to theGreek
 
that, when he began his translation, it was as familiar to him
 
as theEnglish. His method of studying the Scripture was
 
such as left nothingunnoticed. The Bible was read and reread. Every sentence was studied,both in the original and
 
English, with the most prayerful interest.Scripture was used
 
to illustrate Scripture, until every subject in the Word
 
of God
 
was examined in the light of Divine Truth. He made his
 
translationwithout reference to any version; that is, he adopted
 
no version as abasis. His work was not a Revision of any
 
former version, but a NewTranslation; for he was not disposed to be trammeled by any versionwhatever, but desired
 
to find the truth of God, as it is contained in theOriginal.
 
This translation was just finished when Tischendorf's great
 
discovery waspublished to the world; and the author immediately began translating thisnewly found text. Known as
Codex 
 
Sinaiticus 
, so called because themanuscript was found near
 
Mt. Sinai, it is also known as
Aleph 
, the firstletter of the
 
Hebrew alphabet. The three best manuscripts previouslyknown
 
were already designated A, B and C. Not wishing to change
 
thesesymbols, but at the same time recognizing Tischendorf’s
 
claim to firstrank, they designated the new text as
א
.
 
Constantine Tischendorf, of Leipsig, after a nine days' trip by
 
caravan,southeast of Suez, arrived at the Greek Monastery of 
 
St. Catherine, whichis in a cleft of the mountains. In the
 
library of this monastery, which isdark except for two or
 
three hours of the day, and in which no lights norfire are
 
permitted, are many old and precious manuscripts, which may
 
beread, and even copied, if those who have made the long
 
journey have theproper official permission.
 
Here, in 1844, Tischendorf discovered, in abasket of refuse,
 
some leaves of a very old Greek manuscript of the Bible.He
 
was not permitted to see the remainder of the material, and
 
two othervisits were necessary before he was able to secure,
 
by the authority of the Czar of Russia, the entire New Testament, and portions of the Old,which are now in the Imperial
 
Library of Petrograd.
 
From this greatdiscovery is this translation made, and to
 
all lovers of Truth is itdedicated.
 
May it go forth under the Divine Blessing, to establish and
 
comfort the hearts of those who love the Truth.
 
PICKETT ANDERSON TIMMINS.
 
EDITOR’S PREFACE, 2005
 English translations of the Sinaiticus are rare enough;Anderson’s New Testament is unique. We hope the reader willappreciate the literacy, accuracy and authenticity of this work– the goal of the translator’s life, the editors’ passion.Anderson did not translate the Shepherd or Barnabas; theLightfoot translation is offered here to make the corpuscomplete.We recommend two books by Bart Ehrman that may be helpfulin understanding the rightful places of 
Sinaiticus: The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of theNew Testament
(1996) and
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not make It Intothe New Testament
(2003).
 
For good measure, we added the Didache to our collection. It is not a part of the Sianiticus, but has a strong affinity with the Epistle of Barnabas.
Codex Sinaiticus 
, from
Wikipedia
, the free encyclopedia. (London, Brit. Libr., Add.43725; Gregory-Aland no.
א
(Aleph) or 01)
is a complete, 4th century uncialmanuscript of the New Testament. It also contains substantial portions of theSeptuagint. Written between 330-350, it may be one of the original 50 copiesof the scriptures commisioned by Roman Emperor Constantine after hisconversion to Christianity. Along with Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus isone of the most valuable manuscripts for Textual criticism of the Greek NewTestament, as well as the Septuagint.Codex Sinaiticus was found by Constantin von Tischendorf on his third visit to the Monastery of Saint Catherine, onMount Sinai in Egypt, in 1859. The first two trips hadyielded parts of the Old Testament, some from a rubbishbin. The emperor Alexander II of Russia sent him tosearch for manuscripts, which he was convinced werestill to be found in the Sinai monastery. In May 1975during restoration work, the monks of St. Catherine’smonastery at Sinai discovered a room under the St.George chapel which contained many parchmentfragments. Among these fragments, thirteen missingpages from the Sinaiticus Old Testament were found.The story of how von Tischendorf found the manuscript, which containedmost of the Old Testament and all of the New Testament, has all the interestof a romance. Von Tischendorf reached the monastery on January 31; but hisinquiries appeared to be fruitless. On February 4, he had resolved to returnhome without having gained his object.“On that day, when walking with the provisor of the convent, he spoke withmuch regret of his ill-success. Returning from their promenade, Tischendorf accompanied the monk to his room, and there had displayed to him what hiscompanion called a copy of the Septuagint, which he, the ghostly brother,owned. The manuscript was wrapped up in a piece of cloth, and on its beingunrolled, to the surprise and delight of the critic the very documentpresented itself which he had given up all hope of seeing. His object hadbeen to complete the fragmentary Septuagint of 1844, which he had declaredto be the most ancient of all Greek codices on vellum that are extant; but hefound not only that, but a copy of the Greek New Testament attached, of thesame age, and perfectly complete, not wanting a single page or paragraph.”This precious fragment, after some negotiations, he obtained possession of,and conveyed it to the Emperor Alexander, who fully appreciated itsimportance, and caused it to be published as nearly as possible in facsimile,so as to exhibit correctly the ancient handwriting.The entire codex consists of 346 1/2 folios, written in four columns. Of these199 belong to the Old Testament and 147 1/2 to the New, along with two
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