06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 437 437 READING THE EARLIEST COPIES OF 2 PETER of 2 Peter is apparently responding to the idea that the parousia of Jesus has been delayed by arguing that time is different for God than for humans. The text of P72 simply says that one day for God is like a thousand years for humans that is like one day for God. Because what seems like a long time to humans is a very short time to God, what seems like a delay to humans is not a delay for God. This is also the main point of the likely original text of the verse. However, it not only says that one day with God is like a thousand years, but also that a thousand years (with God) is like one day. The text of P72 might suggest that using the formula one day = one thou- sand years it is possible to calculate divine time. The likely original text suggests rather that divine and human time are completely in- commensurable. One cannot maintain that the parousia of Jesus has been delayed not merely because a long time for humans is a short time for God, but because divine and human time are completely dif- ferent and no conclusion about the former can be based on the latter. Another aspect of 2 Peter’s eschatology is presented distinctively by P72 in 3,10. Here the text of P72 says that gh kai ta en auth erga eureqhsetai luomena (the earth and the works on it will be discovered dissolved) while the likely original text does not include the last word — luomena (dissolved). The meaning of the likely ori- ginal text is unclear; I suggest that the author is thinking that escha- tological fire will destroy all injustice and only the just will remain, having thus been revealed. By adding the word luomena, the text of P72 clarifies this statement as meaning that the earth and the works on it will be dissolved along with the elements that, it has just been said, will be dissolved. II. Codex Sinaiticus Codex Sinaiticus, like Codex Vaticanus to be discussed below, is a parchment codex. Its pages are 15 ̋ ×13.5 ̋ with four columns on each page and 47 lines per column. Presumably this large book was intended for public reading in the church. Also like Codex Vati- canus, Codex Sinaiticus is a biblical codex. It is assumed that it contained the entire Old Testament even though the first part of the Old Testament, namely Genesis to 1 Chronicles is now missing. The codex contains the entire New Testament along with two writ- ings not now considered part of the New Testament, namely the