The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 9

The character of the text can hardly be gauged from so small a sample, but two agreements with Codex Vaticanus against Codex Alexandrinus are noticeable, and the support against both of a variant found in a few cursives.

iv. 23

... the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up before us until we passed over; so that all the nations of the earth may know that the power of the Lord is strong.

... because the Lord our God dried up the Jordan River from before the sons of Israel when they were passing over; and their minds melted, and they were struck with terror.

2–4. "Which... before us": F* omits "which" and has "the Red Sea" in place of "before us."
8. "Of the Lord": so several cursives; "of the Lord" Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Ephraemi.
13. "Passing over": so Codex Vaticanus; "to pass over" Codex Alexandrinus.
14–15. "And their minds melted": so Codex Vaticanus; "their minds were completely melted" Codex Alexandrinus.

1169. ST. MATTHEW’S GOSPEL vi.

This is a fragment from the outer part of a vellum leaf. The upper portion seems to have been cut off, while the lower is worm-eaten and decayed. Two columns of about 27 lines each were contained on the page, and the original dimensions of the leaf may be estimated roughly at 25 x 20 cm. No clear traces of ruling are discernible. The hand is an upright uncial, rather large and carefully finished, with strongly marked contrasts of light and heavy strokes. It is of the same type as 848, and the fragment reproduced in Schubart’s Pap. Gr. Berol. 44 a Berlin Greek Papyri, and must belong to approximately the same period. The text is divided into paragraphs or verses, a new line with an enlarged initial letter commencing each paragraph, much after the manner of, for example, the Codex Alexandrinus.