 Alexandrinus follows the Alexandrian readings through the rest of the New Testament ; however , the text goes from closely resembling Codex Sinaiticus in the Pauline epistles to more closely resembling the text of a number of papyri ( <formula> 74 for Acts , <formula> 47 for the Apocalypse ) . The text of Acts frequently agrees with the biblical quotations made by St. Athanasius . The gospels are cited as a " consistently cited witness of the third order " in the critical apparatus of the Novum Testamentum Graece , while the rest of the New Testament is of the " first order . " In the Pauline Epistles it is closer to Sinaiticus than to Vaticanus . In the General Epistles it represents a different subtype than the Sinaiticus and the Vaticanus . In the Book of Revelation it agrees with Codex Ephraemi against Sinaiticus and Papyrus 47 . In the Book of Revelation and in several books of the Old Testament , it has the best text of all manuscripts . In the Old Testament its text often agrees with Codex Sinaiticus . 
