gengwall

trio – the oldest uncials are from 400ad. The very oldest manuscripts are papyrus fragments and they are not in the format of uncials as they were meant for reading in the assemblies. They have punctuaion, and sometimes accents and breath marks. Many of the minuscules that were used by the Nestle-Aland editors contained many details including accents, punctuation, and capitalization, so the editors didn’t make educated guesses on much. That isn’t to say they never filled in the blanks, but they did have a lot of ancient documents to guide them.

One of the papyri, p123, has the complete text of 1 Cor 14 and dates around 350. I am trying to find an image of it to see if it was punctuated.