And it COULD be that GOD providentially preserved those two mss. The Vatican was known to have burnt many a mss that didn't jive with their "official" ones, & Vaticanus didn't meet that criterion. And Tischendorf coulda gone to many other places besides the remote St. Catherine's Monastery, & found many more interesting places to look while there besides in a trashcan.

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