So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

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So some people believe that Christians, precisely because they wanted to proof text a lot, they wanted to run around through a lot of different texts, they actually invented the codex.

所以有些人认为，想核对经文的基督教徒，需要查阅很多不同的经文，于是他们发明了抄本。

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What is a codex?

什么是抄本？

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Codex All that means is this is a codex.

中间是d，Codex，with，a，“d，“，okay？,这就是抄本。

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