Papyrus 18
New Testament manuscript
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Papyrus 18 (in the Gregory–Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓18, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript containing the beginning of the Book of Revelation. It contains only Revelation 1:4–7. It is written against the fibres of the papyrus. On the other side of the papyrus is the ending of the book of Exodus. It is unclear whether the papyrus was a scroll of Exodus later reused for a copy of Revelation or a leaf from a codex with miscellaneous contents.[1] The two sides of the papyrus were copied in different hands, but the original editor of the papyrus did not think there was a great interval of time between the copying of the two sides. He assigned the Exodus to the third century and the Revelation to the third or early fourth century.[2]
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| New Testament manuscript | |
Verso Revelation 1:4–7 | |
| Name | Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1079 |
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| Text | Book of Revelation 1 † |
| Date | 3rd/4th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | British Library |
| Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII, (London 1911), pp. 13 14 |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
Description
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The Greek text of this manuscript is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.[3]
- λυσαντι ημας εκ (lysanti hēmas ek) — P18, אc, A, C, 2020, 2081, 2814
- λουσαντι ημας απο (lousanti hēmas apo) — P, 046, 94, 1006, 1859, 2042, 2065, 2073, 2138, 2432
It is currently housed at the British Library (Inv. 2053v) in London.[3][4]
Text
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a The scribe corrected this to τω θω