Second, it was recently discovered that the scribes of Vaticanus have indicated knowledge of textual variants by using two horizontal dots in the margin next to a line of text where a variant occurs.40There are more than 700 such “umlauts” in the NT of Vaticanus, forty-three of which are in Mark alone. Thus, Codex B marks out half as many variants as the UBS text does! It's almost as if this is an ancient UBS Greek text. This is a remarkable discovery whose implications have yet to be fully explored. But, significantly, there is no umlaut at 16:8.41
Interesting
