5 Καὶ εἷς ἐκ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων λέγει μοι· «Μὴ κλαῖε· ἰδού, ἐνίκησεν ὁ λέων ὁο rell ¦ 1 ων Me¼ TR ¦ --- Mh⅔ ℵ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Ἰούδα, ἡ ῥίζα Δαυίδ, ἀνοῖξαιανοιξαι f35 Md,e,g,h ℵA,CP,OC,NU,TR ¦ ο ανοιγων Ma,b,f,i RP,HF τὸ βιβλίον καὶκαι rell ¦ 1 λυσαι ℵ,TR τὰς ἑπτὰ σφραγῖδας αὐτοῦ.» 6 Καὶ εἶδονειδον rell ¦ ιδον [22 assorted mss] ¦ 1 και ιδου Mb CP,TR ¦ ιδου και A ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ θρόνου καὶ τῶν τεσσάρων ζῴων, καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, Ἀρνίον ἑστηκόςεστηκος rell ¦ εστηκως Mb⅖,e⅓,g¼ ℵ—ὡς ἐσφαγμένον, ἔχονεχον rell ¦ εχων Md⅕,e¼,g,h¼ 𝕻24ℵA,NU κέρατα ἑπτὰ καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς ἑπτά, ἅα f35 Ma,b,d,f,g,i CP,RP,HF,OC ¦ οι Me,h ℵA,NU,TR (The gender agrees with ‘horns’, not ‘eyes’, which is unexpected.) εἰσιν τὰ ἑπτὰεπτα rell [NU] ¦ --- Mept A πνεύματα τοῦ Θεοῦπνευματα του θεου rell ¦ ∼ 231 Mept TR ἀποστελλόμενααποστελλομενα f35 Ma,b,e¼,f,i¾ CP,RP,HF,OC ¦ τα 1 Me¼,g,i⅕ ¦ τα απεσταλμενα Md¾,ept TR ¦ απεσταλμενα Mhpt 𝕻24ℵ ¦ απεσταλμενοι A,NU εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.
9 Καὶ ᾄδουσιν ᾠδὴν καινὴν λέγοντες· «Ἄξιος εἶ λαβεῖν τὸ βιβλίον καὶ ἀνοῖξαι τὰς σφραγῖδας αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐσφάγης, καὶ ἠγόρασας τῷ Θεῷ ἡμᾶςτω θεω ημας f35 Ma,d,e⅔,f,h,i⅗ ℵ,CP,RP,HF,OC,TR ¦ ∼ 312 Mb,g,i⅖ ¦ 3 Me⅓ ¦ 12 A,NU [Why do you suppose NU follows a single MS, of demonstrably inferior quality in Revelation (objectively so), against virtually all others (perhaps six scattered cursives have ‘our’ for ‘us’) plus lat,syr,bo? And why do the editors of modern versions follow their lead? Why? (Hoskier says the word was ‘lost’ in the transition from one column to the next—I don’t have access to a facsimile of the codex to check it, but assuming that Hoskier is correct about the location then the omission was probably inadvertent, one of the many slips that disfigure the MS.)] ἐν τῷ αἵματί σου ἐκ πάσης φυλῆς καὶ γλώσσης καὶ λαοῦ καὶ ἔθνους·