"The Codex Sinaiticus has been corrected by so many hands that it affords a most
interesting and intricate problem to the palaeographer who wishes to disentangle
the various stages by which it has reached its present condition " Kirsopp Lake,
Codex Sinaiticus - New Testament volume; page xvii of the introduction
This from a PROponent?
Tischendorf said he "counted 14,800 alterations and corrections in Sinaiticus."
Alterations, more alterations, and more alterations were made, and in fact, most of
them are believed to be made in the 6th and 7th centuries.
Tischendorf inspected the document and said "On nearly every page of the manuscript
there are corrections and revisions, done by 10 different people."
Tischendorf " the New Testament is extremely unreliable on many occasions 10, 20,
30, 40, words are dropped letters, words even whole sentences are frequently
written twice over, or begun and immediately canceled. That gross blunder, whereby
a clause is omitted because it happens to end in the same word as the clause
preceding, occurs no less than 115 times in the New Testament."
CORRECTED THRU OUT ALL AGES
Kirsopp Lake says there were three groups and even a four groups of correctors
that altered the codex. First, there were the "post Caesarean" possibly even those
"at the monastery of St. Catherines on Mt. Sinai." Second, there were "the
intermediate correctors, of which certainly the earliest, and possibly all belonged
to Caesarea. They are probably no earlier than the fifth nor later than the seventh
century." Third, there are the early correctors, all probably "belonging to the
forth and certainly no later than the fifth century." Finally, the latest
correctors altered the manuscript probably in the twelfth century.
Maybe this is where the saying came from?
Too many cooks spoil the broth
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