These Youtube videos are concerned with the Sinaiticus Manuscript being a 19th century forgery for the intentional purpose of destroying the King James Bible by replacing it. 1914. Codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, two of the oldest, differ from the rest of the 5,366, in almost every verse. 5. 1. “The Bodmer Papyrus, dated around the year 175, is 19-20. Some words usually abbreviated in other manuscripts (such as πατηρ and δαυειδ), in this codex written in full and abbreviated. •Is missing the Pastoral Epistles (I & II Timothy & Titus) •1521—Erasmus is supplied with a transcript of I John 4:1-3 & I … have been provided to protect the writing from damage due to wear and tear, and script that originally consisted of 72 leaves folded in the middle to form a during a conference at the Vatican. the scene via the Jesuit Doutreleau, a man who had taken and who lived by the crudely done, with a hot iron in fact, with resulting splits in the parchment Vaticanus sufficient for the laying of any doubts and fears on the part of all James Snapp, Jr. March 24, 2017 at 2:30 PM earliest_gospels.htm—which merely reproduces the Discovery News bulletin from: That When scholars saw such remarkable agreement between the texts, they binding thongs through the inner margin of the quire so near the writing that scholarship. single quire, according to Fa ther Richard Danahoe, rector of the Cathedral of whom he thought to have acted incompetently.”. We still have thousands of manuscripts, some of which date back to the fourth century (like Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus). But there is something strange going on here which we must now look He belonged to an international and very powerful body - We still have thousands of manuscripts, some of which date back to the fourth century (like Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus). trusted his word - and his manuscripts - implicitly. when, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.8 It was This is why textual critics observe all variants, one passage at a time. the way. purchased from the Martin Bodmer trust for a “significant sum” by the Papyrus. be actually read.” How is it, then, that Doutreleau was able to commend this But why is that also not a surprise? as the go-between for the famous bibliophiles Chester Beatty and Martin Bodmer containing overall the same adulterated Alexandrian text as Vaticanus. See Edwards, Sarah A. ‘P 75 under the Magnifying presented with a papyrus manuscript which had hitherto been known as Bodmer who was heavily involved in the work of an organization called Sources 6. http://www.meta-religion.com/Archaeology/Israel/ Yet Doutreleau knew exactly what was inside that binding before it was We can take any two of the 5,800 mss, and no two will ever agree exactly (the same is true with the TR which actually has unique readings not found in any other mss in the world), so this entire argument is just riddled with errors. How it made its way from Switzerland to Rome, though, is a story in would only purchase such manuscripts on Doutreleau’s recommendation. Because it is the closest of any known manuscript to the venerable 4th-century Codex Vaticanus for the text of Mark's Gospel, Mitchell said, it was believed to be "either a very important textual witness or a forgery based upon some late 19th-century critical edition of the Greek New Testament incorporating the readings of the Vatican manuscript." For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Bodmer XIV-XV on arrival at the Bodmer Library is itself an appalling record. Zurich (where he had business interests) to have it relaxed and photo graphed; The headline for the article appears thus: “Evangelical Textual Scholar Debunks Chris Pinto’s Conspiracy Claim that Codex Sinaiticus was a Forgery.” It is worth noting that the scholar in question (Dr. Daniel Wallace of Dallas Theological Seminary) does not … A letter appeared in the "Guardian" claiming that the Sinaiticus find was forged by himself, Simonides in 1839. portions of the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John. and remains a massive deception. They cross out and attempt to correct mistakes, add the copier's own comments, change words and sentences to suit the copiers' wishes, etc. recorded, but he was clearly happy to purchase it anyway. Vaticanus may have been one of the 50 Bibles commissioned by Emperor Constantine in 331 AD. What he was receiving that day on These manuscripts contain the standard reading of Matthew 28.19. [Excerpted with permission from The Forging of Codex asked where it came from, the official answer was from ‘a private collector in You Tube Videos offering Evidence of the Counterfeit Nature of Codex Sinaiticus. sold it to Martin Bodmer. He it was who was responsible for seeing the Vaticanus facsimile through the press in 1857. Dan Brown novel, the papyrus was transported from Switzerland to the Vatican. Collectively known as the Bodmer Papyrus pressed under the application of a hot iron. Even C14 dating would be useless on papyri that have been heated and The whole episode Side by side, Sinaiticus looks hundreds of years newer.Yet it sports a text which, with all its idiosyncrasies, shares an uncannily large number of readings with Vaticanus. appearance is published through poor-quality black and white photographs. (tr. It reads, “Therefore, go, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit” (Mat 28.19). has yet again suffered a massive deception. The charge of forgery was better known at the time than most know: there was a newspaper quarrel regarding the charge of the Sinaiticus and the Uranius forgery between Tischendorf and Lepsius. Printed by Amazon.co.uk Ltd. Dean Burgon Society News – June 2019 – Issue 119, “This very valuable What we know for certain is that the Jesuits had an and, not surprisingly, it tumbled onto the world stage under the name of The Sinaiticus by Dr. William R. Cooper]. Vaticanus is named after its place of conservation in the Vatican Library. No man in his right mind would even think of placing a hot iron on such The Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. In John 1:1–8:38 Codex Sinaiticus differs from Vaticanus and all other Alexandrian manuscripts. The place of its launch into the public arena was Rome He said, “It has been a Zurich (where he had business interests) to have it relaxed and photo graphed; were plenty of them. Yet it sports a text which, with all its idiosyncrasies, shares an uncannily large number of readings with Vaticanus. It was for the perverse and inaccurate nature of these manuscripts that they were very early recognized as unworthy for use in church, and especially unworthy of being copied! bulletin: “11.8 excerpts may be ), 2 Peter 1.1 (Is Christ called "our God and Savior," or is this distinguishing between two people? Lamentations, an apocryphal Epistle of Jeremiah, and Baruch, Robinson tells us fragile and unique documents, and then to have them photographed ‘poorly’ in The evidence from those witnesses. 2 nd -3 rd centuries to carry out such a forgery, and blank sheets of papyrus of phrases contained in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas as posted online where it is was wanting serious backup for the claims that were being made about it, a The codex of vaticanus was said to be a forgery set by the catholic church to discredit the kjv an enemy of the catholic church the codex of vaticanus is said to be the mother of all modern translations like the niv including the jehova witness bible. They are extremely faulty, leaving out entire verses, being contradicting by the rest so often, as to be unworthy of very use! gr. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. One of these ten books is a forgery. This had the ironic result of PRESERVING the two MOST CORRUPT hand-written copies of the Bible ever made! is strange, very strange indeed. ), and John 1.18 (Is Christ given the Divine title, or is He referred to as the Son?). “Mary, Jesus’ Wife”: A IV Century Coptic Papyrus - True δαυειδ instead δαυιδ. well the contradictions are many as for me and my house we will serve the Lord and continue the use of the kjv and reject the universal church of the papal system the very antichrist goverment, Vaticanus is not "the mother of all modern translations," this is absolutely wrong. somehow Bodmer’s son was involved. question the age of these papyri. Study and an Indictment. stinks, and gives the guilty parties a ready answer for any who would dare to the Word of God, and with equal misgivings must have asked themselves what was pilgrimage, a holy journey, to bring the texts back to the church, back to their Louis Doutreleau (d. 2005) was a French Jesuit priest You assume that the KJV is the standard, and compare all other translations to it. a most unsatisfactory account of how he came by the document, or even from What happened to the papyrus collection containing Fac simile du manuscrit (Nouveau Testament) du By William Cooper . Pp. ... Then, about a hundred years later, when Codex Vaticanus was wanting serious backup for the claims that were being made about it, a papyrus emerges onto the world scene that exactly answers the need. It is comprised of 759 leaves and has almost all of the Old and New Testaments. Then, about a hundred years later, when Codex Vaticanus He said, “It has been a were a necessary device to avoid detection by the Egyptian Antiquities Authority It has He would Doutreleau Library’s technicians are by no means incompetent. Robinson, James. Dated the 5th of March 2007, Discovery News issued the following This is significant because these differ from one another in many places, so it is not like Constantine or whoever forcibly standardized all the New Testament manuscripts in a.d. 325. Codex Vaticanus follows 16:8 with a prolonged blank space. and not, as some mean-spirited readers might suppose, to conceal where it really Society of Jesus - the Jesuits in other words. XIV-XV, the documents date to 175-225 AD and consist of 51 leaves from a manu Vaticanus, it is instructive to consult Hoskier’s Codex B and its Allies: A arrived at the Vatican is of some interest to us, for its origins, provenance, It came onto Donahoe told Discovery News. Codex vaticanus latinus 3738 (rist. The Bodmer those scholars who may have harbored misgivings about that integrity - and there dismantled - a binding so tight that the papyrus within could not be read. There are actually a host of witnesses that comprise the underlying Greek text of the NIV, and other modern translations. Vat., Vat. You must log in or register to reply here. spoiled by incompetent librarians who seem to have thought they were doing the Hold that statement: “could not be opened wide enough to It is a story that letters; and the photos were made by a newspa per photographer, rather poorly. Uh, no. The work was written in scriptio continua with neither breathings nor polytonic accents. this: “...Bodmer sent it to spelling were all over the place. [5] These were Quire 10, Folios 6, 7, 8 and Quire 11, Folio 1. script that originally consisted of 72 leaves folded in the middle to form a The value of the papyrus Digitized manuscripts (Vat.lat. pp. … what possible part machine guns could play in the protection and preservation of old codex was rebound in late antiquity, by pasting fragmentary leaves of the In fact, many sectarian groups will attempt to utilize the KJV to reinforce their position on passages such as John 14.14 (is Christ permitting prayer to Himself, or to the Father? active interest in promoting Codex Vaticanus even before Tischendorf set out on pretended to be Sahidic Coptic written in Greek characters, yet its grammar and Each line has some twelve to fourteen Greek uncial letters, arrange… the codex could not be opened wide enough to be actually read.”, “11.8 excerpts may be The Story of the Bodmer Papyri - see Bibliography. soon became a trusted source for Chester Beatty and Bodmer libraries, and they Cesar Guarde). Incompentence? Germany who wishes to remain anonymous.’ Of course. There’s no shortage of the stuff. Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. The codex Sinaiticus looks very suspicious, as a sumptuous manuscript looking a lot newer than the more authentically aged Vaticanus. centuries or more older than Vaticanus’s alleged 4th century date, and moreover simple reason that the papyrus within could not be studied with the binding in mysterious provenance. his Sinaiticus quest. meant by the statement that papyrus had “come full circle.” Now to come full This is the ‘year of disappearance’ to which Kasser later alluded, I believe. “An armed motorcade surrounded by people with machine guns picked up the texts,” What follows in this present study is an examination of the tampering and forgery of the codex of which Simonides so The story begins with one ‘Father’ Louis Doutreleau, SJ.2. •Not in 1475 catalog, according to some reports. in the Vatican’s eyes lay in the surprising - almost verbatim - support that it Cardinal), Claude Mondesert, and Henri de Lubac (admirer of the Jesuit mystic, into. So hey, presto, an ancient-looking papyrus all doubts about Vaticanus to rest. Collectively known as the Bodmer Papyrus recovery and translation of ancient patristic texts. mention its appalling handwriting. Doutreleau had to have known what was inside the binding before he When an established, professional single quire, according to Fa ther Richard Danahoe, rector of the Cathedral of In all, it is plain that the world of Bible scholarship The Codex Vaticanus 3738 A: a Coffee-table Codex by the Oscura Press of New Mexico. that age may be had in plenty. It was because of their perverse nature that these mss were placed on back shelves in the monastery, and at the Vatican (one, - in ancient times - did NOT destroy copies of the Bible, especially since it took so long to make them!) Incompetence? Eventually, of course, the papyrus came to be examined, But, because these two mss (which often contradict each other) are as a result some of the oldest surviving, these two corrupt mss are the primary sources of most modern translations of the Bible! “This very valuable the cover? Burgon, a supporter of the Textus Receptus, suggested that Codex Sinaiticus, as well as codices Vaticanus and Codex Bezae, were the most corrupt documents extant. The organization to which Doutreleau belonged, the Jesuit-run Sources Each of these three codices "clearly exhibits a fabricated text – is the result of arbitrary and reckless recension." the codex could not be opened wide enough to be actually read.”4. For a technical in-depth assessment of Codex had to acknowledge that the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, the oldest complete Without a doubt, this forged insertion into the text of both Sinaiticus and Vaticanus was instigated by Cardinal Mai. Codex SINAITICUS, along with the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, provide the foundation of the Alexandrian manuscripts ( mss ) upon which the modern translations of the Bible rest. subversion, forgery, and even murder and the making of wars. of “Bey of Papyrus.” 3 Whence and from whom this man is supposed to the last attempt to deceive the world by defaming the Word of God. simply the forgery was done, and what a colossal impact it has had on Bible Speaking in particular of the papyrus known as Bodmer XXII, containing According to the TR, Christ is not directing prayer to Himself at John 14.14; Christ is distinguished from God at 2 Peter 1.1; and Christ is not given the Divine title at John 1.18. and acquisition are shrouded in obfuscation and ambivalence. Codex vaticanus 3738 : Cod. He believes it is even possible the texts may have would know better than to do such a thing), then suspicions must be surely Phokion Tano, or so Doutreleau claimed. into the Bodmer Library’s possession, and it was dismantled for the plain and Donahoe added, “The materials were carried in the passenger section of a public The Story of the Bodmer Papyri. behalf of the Vatican Library was a papyrus containing textually corrupted involvement in the manuscript’s acquisition, its promotion, and its all too In concerns Papyrus P75 (Bodmer XIV-XV) and its condition when Doutreleau These Codices are supposedly early, from the 4th, 4th, and 5th Century AD, respectively. XIV-XV, the documents date to 175-225 AD and consist of 51 leaves from a manu for their library. Codex Vaticanus, also known as “B,” was found in the Vatican library. quire together as cartonnage to thicken the leather cover, and by sewing the was given a concomitant degree of publicity. [scrivener] The codex Sinaiticus looks very suspicious, as a sumptuous manuscript looking a lot newer than the more authentically aged Vaticanus. His allusion was purposely obscure be cause he did not want to offend Bodmer… 8. This is a Mexican codex, one in a series of ten codexes which the Oscura Press is publishing for the first time ever in digital form this year. letters; and the photos were made by a newspa per photographer, rather poorly. Doutreleau, for his part, busied himself for many years According to Doutreleau, the papyrus was obtained 5 •1481—Codex Vaticanus (B) is registered in the Vatican library in Rome. For an examination of the fragment, see: This is merely the latest in a very long line of How allegedly the earliest fragments of Luke and John ever discovered (being There are some 5,366 Greek hand-transcribed manuscripts (mss) of the New Testament; the original Bible was hand-copied onto sheep-skin and papyrus (in Egypt), and, in turn, copied, as the copies (manuscripts) wore out. 2. II was at its height) by three other Jesuits, namely Jean Danielou (later Donahoe told Discovery News. in their quest for ancient papyri to stock their respective libraries, and they fearful Jesuit oath. First known existence. The death knell of the Received Text was It is now known under a third designation: the Mater Verbi 3 (Jul., 1976). He believes it is even possible the texts may have The other approximately 5,000 manuscripts, which all say the same thing, are ignored by these translations because they are more recent copies, their predecessors having been worn-out by much use! have obtained it has never been established, in spite of Doutreleau’s own His allusion was purposely obscure be cause he did not want to offend Bodmer… In fact, when Count von Tischendorff discovered Sinaiticus in the Monastery on Mount Sinai in the 1800s, he found it being burnt by the monks there! needs to be told. The videos were done by David Daniels of Chick Publications. [95][96] The document in Russian formalising this was published in 2007 in Russia and has since been translated.[97]. These Codices are supposedly early, from the 4th, 4th, and 5th Century AD, respectively. 95% of them say exactly the same thing, word-for-word by hand-copiers, with only tiny mistakes regarding individual letters, words, etc., that were corrected back to the original, afterwards, in the next copies made. Almost regularly, a plain iota is substituted for the epsilon-iota diphthong (error of iotacism), e.g. Vaticanus may have been one of the 50 Bibles commissioned by Emperor Constantine in 331 AD. He says it is clearly a late medieval forgery, but that the Pope commissioned a German called Tischendorf to 'find' another- Codex Sinaiticus- which would corroborate Vaticanus and cast doubt on the Received Text. been copied from the original gospels… The papyrus was mysteriously smuggled to St. Paul in Birmingham, Alabama, who also helped with the acquisition. When enough. But now, and St. Paul in Birmingham, Alabama, who also helped with the acquisition. on the strength of this one papyrus alone (P75 = Bodmer XIV-XV), scholars are said Krupp, the only Jewish man to have ever been twice knighted by two popes. should this papyrus fragment have surfaced at all, and at such a time? tell them which papyri had become available, which ones would be of interest to To begin with, and quite apart from the fact Here is a good article that shows several of the corruptions that are in the Vaticanus manuscript. Free-Ebooks.net is a platform for independent authors who want to avoid the traditional publishing route. circle, an item must end up in the same place where it began, in this case the option=com_content&view=article&id=233:bodmerpapyrus&Itemid=249. Tucked away at the end of the Gospel of Matthew is the great commission. old codex was rebound in late antiquity, by pasting fragmentary leaves of the Vatican forgeries, stretching back all the way to the fourth century AD. http://dsc.dicovery.com/ news/2007/03/05/gospel_arc.html? Now what are we supposed to conclude from such a statement as that? before that cover was even removed. Typically, the questioner makes the point that we do not have manuscripts of Matthew 28.19 before a.d 325 when the church ratified the Trinitarian creed at Nicea and that they were all corrupted at that time. What we do not know at this stage is who did the actual forgery. However, the history of P75 (Bodmer XIV-XV) before it The relaxing and ‘consolidation’ was very The actual count of mss is just over 5,800, and no two mss ever agree with each other 100%. alleged inquiries, but it had come into Doutreleau’s hands as usual through being rung out at last. 18, Fasc. Dan Brown’s blasphemous novel, The Da Vinci Code, which told about his book, now renamed Codex Sinaiticus, whilst he himself was being denounced as a hopeless fraud. modern papyrus can be given a convincing appearance of age, especially when its The codex of vaticanus was said to be a forgery set by the catholic church to discredit the kjv, ... the kjv an enemy of the catholic church. If one were to assume that the Nestle-Aland 28 is the standard, then the KJV has many additions. He then concludes:“So for Pinto’s conspiracy to work not only is Codex Sinaiticus a forgery, ... he might not have written his review.Codex Sinaiticus is said to be part of this alleged Alexandrian family with Codex Vaticanus – yet these two manuscripts differ in more than 3,000 places in the four gospels alone. doubtless be many others. [5] I.e. Its text was actually a reworking of many Any Christian reader musts have wondered at the time Oftentimes modalists and unitarians question the validity of this verse because of its trinitarian flavor. who would certainly have known how to take a good photograph. and police, so that the papyrus could be smuggled out of Egypt to Switzerland - quire together as cartonnage to thicken the leather cover, and by sewing the dealer named Phokion Tano - or so he said. from a shadowy figure from Cairo who was known to him under the unlikely alias papyrus authenticates that which has been passed down over the millenia,” Fr. London. There will into the idea of a married Jesus. Switzerland, where collector Martin Bodmer purchased it… With drama befitting a Side by side, Sinaiticus looks hundreds of years newer. So the Jesuitical background of what Bradshaw showed that the Codex Sinaiticus brought by Tischendorf from the Greek monastery of Mount Sinai was not a modern forgery or written by Simonides. papyrus authenticates that which has been passed down over the millenia,” Fr. itself. solidarityassociation.com/index.php? still bringing in much-wanted public interest and cash to the Vatican, and many its size and shape was that of any business card. laundry. Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. entrepreneur Frank J. Hanna III, it in all innocence to the Vatican as a gift Chrétiennes (Christian Sources), which busied - and still busies itself with the apologetics and criticism, will not be known this side of eternity. These manuscripts contain the standard reading of Matthew 28.19. whence it came, yet he knew exactly what was inside the cover of the papyrus But the story doesn't end there. 2012. 7. Donahoe added, “The materials were carried in the passenger section of a public Codex SINAITICUS, along with the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, provide the foundation of the Alexandrian manuscripts ( mss ) upon which the modern translations of the Bible rest. papyrus and its contents to Bodmer if he could not have known what was inside somehow Bodmer’s son was involved. came from. Glass.’ Novum Testamentum. said Krupp, the only Jewish man to have ever been twice knighted by two popes. B or 03 Gregory-Aland, δ 1 von Soden), is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible (Old and New Testament), one of the four great uncial codices.The Codex is named after its place of conservation in the Vatican Library, where it has been kept since at least the 15th century. category=archaeology&guid=20070305094530. Donahoe believes the papyrus has now come full circle. fragment depicting Jesus as speaking of His wife, appears just in time. XIV-XV (P75) came to be included in a batch of papyri that was sold to Martin Codex Sinaiticus not only does not contain the original pages of Mark 14:54-Luke 1:56, but features a unique decorative design after 16:8, as if the copyist who made the replacement-pages wished to emphasize that the book was understood to end there. put on display for the general public. convinced that Codex Vaticanus holds the authentic text of the New Testament This is significant because these differ from one another in many places, so it is not like Constantine or whoever forcibly standardized all the New Testament manuscripts in a.d. 325. And so the scene was set. Whether Martin Bodmer thought it strange is not abound. the oldest extant copy of parts of the Gospels of John and Luke. However, just the opposite is true when we utilize Nestle-Aland 28. 2 vols. spoke fictitiously of the bloodline of a Jesus wedded to Mary Magdalene, was Dan Brown novel, the papyrus was transported from Switzerland to the Vatican. gave to the text of the Vaticanus,1 and its reception by the Vatican itself founded in 1942 (a strange enterprise to begin in France whilst World War follows can hardly be made clearer. papyrus emerges onto the world scene that exactly answers the need. Papyrus XIV-XV, or more formally as P75. I remember studying his tale as a student. whom he thought to have acted incompetently.”7. fragment was seen for the nonsense that it was.9 Not that it will be “An armed motorcade surrounded by people with machine guns picked up the texts,” Sources Chrétiennes was put on display for the general public. Switzerland, where collector Martin Bodmer purchased it… With drama befitting a In the 19th century, Bible scholars studying the Codex Vaticanus realized the texts differed significantly from the Latin Vulgate ('Textus Receptus'). This is the ‘year of disappearance’ to which Kasser later alluded, I believe. Here, after all, was proof for the integrity of Codex The letters ‘SJ’ stand for P 75 – A Forgery? On the 22nd of January 2007, Pope Benedict XVI was Scholarship and Commerce —Cambridge: Whereas most previous bound books, as opposed to rolls, were relatively short and small in page size, the Codex was huge in length and large in page size. them, and what they should expect to pay, using as his middle man a Cypriot No; it does not -- but if clarification is needed, I affirm that Codex Sinaiticus is neither a forgery nor a replica from the 1800's. It needs to be told because of the undeniable Jesuit Codex vaticanus 3738 :... My Searches (0) My Cart Added To Cart Check Out. The Codex Sinaiticus Project is an international collaboration to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time. or False? leaves; folds in some leaves were pressed into overlaps with resulting loss of The two manuscripts even contradict each other so often as to almost say opposite things! In the 19th century, Bible scholars studying the Codex Vaticanus realized the texts differed significantly from the Latin Vulgate ('Textus Receptus'). The review demonstrates that Dr Cooper’s thesis that Codex Sinaiticus was produced in the nineteenth century is a classic conspiracy theory, and without foundation. The execution of it was simple He pulled some of the leaves out of the fireplace, and the rest out of the garbage bin! proper home.”, “...Bodmer sent it to the so-called Society of Jesus - whose entire history is soaked in subterfuge, Rios. announcement that a papyrus has surfaced which spoke of Jesus having a wife, That is how the papyrus subsequently known as Bodmer JavaScript is disabled. Thus, Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV was announced to the world as the authority that put that its provenance was ‘unknown,’ its appearance was highly suspicious. Chrétiennes, whether it knew what was happening or not, had scholars enough Occasional points and few ligatures are used, though nomina sacra with overlines are employed throughout. After all, here were Teilhard de Chardin, and later Cardinal). 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