Sinaitic
Britishadjective
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of or relating to the Sinai Peninsula
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of or relating to Mount Sinai
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On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not satisfied with the mild negative of the Sinaitic commandment, "Thou shalt not lie."
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
The two great manuscripts of the fourth century, the Vatican and Sinaitic codices, omit the words “in Ephesus.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
Eusebius tells us that it was read publicly in the churches, and it is found in the Sinaitic Codex of the New Testament, together with the epistle of Barnabas, along with the canonical books.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
It was discovered by Prof. Tischendorf, in 1859, in a basket of fragments, destined to be burned, in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai; hence it is called the Sinaitic manuscript.
From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by E. E. Holmes
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