Papyrus 18

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁸

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Rev 1:4–7
Name	Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1079
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

Papyrus 18 (in the Gregory–Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁸, 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 Rev 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. 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.

Description

The Greek text of this manuscript is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.

• Rev 1:5

λυσαντι ημας εκ — P¹⁸, א^c, A, C, 2020, 2081, 2814

λουσαντι ημας απο — P, 046, 94, 1006, 1859, 2042, 2065, 2073, 2138, 2432

It is currently housed at the British Library (Inv. 2053v) in London.

Text

[Ιωαννης τα]ι[ς επτα] εκ[κλης]ιαις
[ταις εν τη] Ασια χαρις υμειν και ειρη
[νη απο ο ων] και ο ην και ο ερχομε
[νος και απο τ[ων επτα πνευμα
[των α] εν[ω]πιον του θρονου αυ
[τ]ου και απο ΙΗ ΧΡ ο μαρτυς ο πι
στος ο πρωτοτοκος των νεκρω
και ο αρχων των βασιλεων της γης
τω αγαμωντι ημας και λυσαντι η
[μ]ας εκ των αμαρτων ημων εν
[τ]ω αιματι αυτου και επιησεν ημ[ι]
[βα]σ[ιλ]ειαν ιερεις του θυ^a και π[α]τρι
[αυτο]υ. αυτω το κρατος και η δοξα
[εις το]υς αιωνας αμην ιδου
[ερχε]ται μετα των νεφελων
[και οψε]ται αυτον πας οφθαλ
[μος και ο]ιτινες αυτον εξε

^a The scribe corrected this to τω θω

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Brent Nongbri. "Losing a Curious Christian Scroll but Gaining a Curious Christian Codex: An Oxyrhynchus Papyrus of Exodus and Revelation," Novum Testamentum 55 (2013), pp. 77–88.
• Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, pp. 103–105.

External links

• P. Oxy. VIII, 1079 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt