005_Tam_co_570-588 13/02/15 12:48 Pagina 575 WHEN PAPYRI AND CODICES SPEAK: REVISITING JOHN 2,23-25 575 There are various ways in which copyists delimit units throughout these manuscripts. For the sake of a proper assessment, those de- limitation markers that occur in the vicinity of 2,23-25 are listed in the following. This list of different types of delimitation used is by no means exhaustive for the entire manuscripts. In some cases, one kind of marker can be used in combination with another. These de- limitation markers are: 1. Ekthesis — the first letter of a line protruding into the left margin, sometimes with the first letter enlarged. 2. Paragraphos — a simple horizontal stroke placed after the line of a unit and before the next section. 3. Space — extra space deliberately left between words of a line as a mode of punctuation. In these selected manuscripts, spac- ing is of variable length. It is commonly used to mark the end of a unit. Sometimes, a line is intentionally written short, leav- ing plenty of space, and ekthesis appears in the next line. 4. Dicolon — a double dot placed after certain words functions to divide a text. Dicolon is sometimes used together with paragraphos. 5. Stops/ Points — whether placed in the upper, middle position in a line or simply on the line, these stops are used to separate units in minor ways. High stop marks period end; middle stop divides what is inside the period; and underdot differentiates incomplete thoughts. 6. Markers of kephalaia — in the margin of some manuscripts, they are markers inscribed to refer to the kephalaia, a system of chapter divisions stated at the beginning of a book. 7. Section number — a section numbering system is preserved in the margin of Vaticanus, with unknown origin. 8. Numerals of the Eusebian Canons/ Ammonian Section num- bers — markers inscribed in the margin of manuscripts with numbers referring to the tables of the Eusebian Canons, a sys- tem of grouping parallel pericopae (Ammonian sections) in the gospels. 1. Observations Bearing in mind the variety of delimitation markers noted above, close observations and analyses of the selected six earliest available Greek manuscripts are presented as follows.