The Andreas text-type is a form of the text of the

Book of Revelation The Book of Revelation, also known as the Book of the Apocalypse or the Apocalypse of John, is the final book of the New Testament, and therefore the final book of the Bible#Christian Bible, Christian Bible. Written in Greek language, Greek, ...

found in some manuscripts of Revelation, it is named after Andreas of Caesarea, (563–614) whose manuscript followed this text-type. The Andreas text-type has also been called a subtype of the Majority Text in Revelation, which is divided into the Koine form of Revelation and the Andreas type of Revelation. Manuscripts belonging to the Andreas text-type are primarily found in manuscript of Andreas' commentary although there exists Andreas manuscripts which do not contain the commentary. Andreas manuscripts form one third of all Greek manuscripts of Revelation. Andriy_Kesarijskiy

Witnesses

Andreas' commentary is among the oldest Greek commentaries on Revelation. Most subsequent Eastern Christian commentators of the Book of Revelation have drawn heavily upon Andrew and his commentary, which was preserved in about 100 Greek manuscripts, and was also translated into Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic. His commentary was so influential that it preserved the specific Andreas text type of Revelation. The earliest possible witness to the Andreas text-type in Revelation is from the

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revisor, who seems to have followed the Andreas text-type. Schmid numbered around 83 witnesses to the text, these include unicials such as 25, 88, 205, 209 and 632. The Andreas text was used by

Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist ...

in his creation of the

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due to the usage of

Minuscule 2814 Minuscule 2814 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Aν20 (in Soden numbering), formerly labelled as 1rK in all catalogues, but subsequently renumbered as a 2814 by Aland, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographica ...

and thus the text of Revelation in most Reformation-era translations follows the Andreas text-type.

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Sources

* {{cite book , title=Andrew of Caesarea: Commentary on the Apocalypse , url=https://archive.org/details/commentaryonapoc0123andr/page/n6 , url-access=registration , translator=Eugenia Scarvelis Constantinou , publisher=Catholic University of America Press , series=The Fathers of the Church, vol. 123 , date=2011 , isbn=978-0813201238 , ref={{SfnRef, Constantinou, 2011 Bible versions and translations Christian terminology New Testament text-types Textual scholarship