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From: Maurice Robinson 
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Subject: Re: Paragraph marks in Codex Vaticanus
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On Wed, 6 Dec 1995 Timster132@aol.com wrote:

>   The early papyri do not have paragraph markings or divisions.
>   The editor who put them in Vaticanus may have had aural divisions in mind,
> or not.  I have no trouble believing that the editor was astute enough to be
> aware of this.  By the time they were added to the mss, there were surely
> other reasons for marking paragraphs, such as for lectionary reading.
> 

I am not certain whether the original reference was to the sectional 
markings (which were added later) or to certain lines in which the 
initial letter is set off to the left to indicate a paragraph or sorts 
(which is due to the original scribe).  That there was some sort of early 
paragraphing utilized in Vaticanus is certain; whether it agrees with 
later divisions would have to be verified.

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