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On January 21, 2018, Bible Scholar Nehemia Gordon and his team of researchers discovered the 1,000th Hebrew Bible manuscript containing the original name of God in Hebrew with vowels. For two hundred years, scholars have believed based on Greek sources and conjecture that the Hebrew name of God was originally pronounced “Yahweh.” In late 2016, Gordon found never-translated traditional Jewish sources that explicitly identified the vowels of God’s name in Hebrew as “Yehovah.” This is similar to the English Jehovah, but with a “Y” and the emphasis on the final syllable. God’s name, known as the Tetragrammaton, is written in most Hebrew Bible manuscripts with one of its vowels missing, making it unreadable in accordance with an ancient Jewish ban on speaking the name. Despite this, Gordon had previously discovered five Bible manuscripts with a full set of Hebrew vowels proving the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton was known to Jewish scribes as “Yehovah.” The original Hebrew name of God re-discovered in 1,000 Bible manuscripts religionnews.com/2018/01/25/…“ineffable”%20name.

Codex Cyprius (also known as K or 017, from the ninth or tenth century, Bibliothèque nationale de France Greek manuscript 63) dates Matthew, Mark, and Luke as eight, ten, and fifteen years after the ascension of Christ into heaven, which is dated forty days after the resurrection on the basis of Acts 1:3. One of the notable features of Codex Cyprius is the subscriptions at the end of the first three Gospels, which provide information about when and where each Gospel was written: Matthew: "The Gospel according to Matthew was written by him in Jerusalem, eight years after the ascension of the Messiah." Mark: "The Gospel according to Mark was written ten years after the ascension of the Messiah." Luke: "The Gospel according to Luke was written fifteen years after the ascension of the Messiah.

Melito of Sardis, another Christian (Pre-nicea) who held Annihilationism/Conditionalism "But such as are mindful of His words, and are admitted into that covenant which is unchangeable, 'they' see God—so far as it is possible for them to see Him. These also will have power to escape destruction, when the flood of fire comes upon all the world. For there was once a flood and a wind, and the great men were swept away by a violent blast from the north, but the just were left, for a demonstration of the truth. Again, at another time there was a flood of water, and all men and animals perished in the multitude of waters, but the just were preserved in an ark of wood by the command of God. So also will it be at the last time: there shall be a flood of fire, and the earth shall be burnt up, together with its mountains; and mankind shall be burnt up, along with the idols which they have made, and the carved images which they have worshipped; and the sea shall be burnt up, together with its islands; but the just shall be preserved from wrath, like as were their fellows of the ark from the waters of the deluge. And then shall those who have not known God, and those who have made them idols, bemoan themselves, when they shall see those idols of theirs being burnt up, together with themselves, and nothing shall be found to help them." For those who are ashamed to be saved must of necessity perish. I therefore counsel them to open their eyes and see: for, lo! light is given abundantly to us all to see thereby; and if, when light has arisen upon us, any one close his eyes so as to not see, into the ditch he must go." (Fragment I) "He hath set before thee all these things, and showeth thee that, if thou follow after evil, thou shalt be condemned for thy evil deeds; but that, if after goodness, thou shalt receive from Him abundant good, together with immortal life for ever." (Fragment I) "The anger and wrath of the Lord—the vengeance of the Deity upon sinners, when He bears with them with a view to punishment, does not at once judge them according to strict equity. As in the Psalm: 'In His anger and in His wrath will He trouble them.'" (Fragment IX) "He who is the repose of those that are departed; the recoverer of those that are lost; the light of those that are in darkness; the deliverer of those that are captive; the guide of those that go astray; the asylum of the afflicted." (Fragment IV)