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• Papyrus, of course, is the papery substance people wrote on during the time of Christ. Once a papyrus document began to deteriorate or the writing started to fade, it was copied onto a new papyrus and the original was discarded. This was true of the apostles’ writings as well. But the ancients did not live in a throwaway society as we do today. Not...
• Egyptian mortuary priests used discarded papyri to form papier-mâché, which they used as the infrastructure of mummy coverings or other objects. They sometimes covered the papyrus mold with plaster and painted it with silver or gold.
• Evangelical Library on Chiltern Street in London.
• It dawned on me that these handwritten manuscripts had been copied by people who wanted to keep the story of Jesus alive. Behind each ancient manuscript copy of Scripture was a person who had carefully and reverently written down each word, letter for letter.
• The people who had copied these letters certainly recognized their power. Remember, these fragments dated back as far as AD 350, which was before they were officially recognized by a church council as the inspired Word of God. So the copiers would not have been aware that what they were copying would eventually be recognized as Scripture.