I only have a vague understanding of this business of codices. I've heard you refer to them by name in some of the lessons, and can infer context as well as the next guy, but I lack a complete picture.
Wiki link for Bezae says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis ... is a codex of the New Testament dating from the 5th century written in an uncial hand on vellum.
The place of origin of the codex is still disputed. The manuscript is believed to have been repaired at Lyon in the ninth century as revealed by a distinctive ink used for supplementary pages.
The Greek text is unique, with many interpolations found nowhere else, with a few remarkable omissions, and a capricious tendency to rephrase sentences.
Pericope de adultera [is] present and not marked as spurious or doubtful
Well that's pretty amazing. The document is known to take license with Scripture, and presents a new entry hundreds of years after the fact, but the insertion is not doubtful. Let's have a look at the passage itself.
Wiki link for The Pericope Adultera says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:The Pericope Adulterae is a traditional name for a famous passage (pericope) about Jesus and the woman taken in adultery from verses 7:53-8:11 of the Gospel of John.
The pericope is not found in any place in any of the earliest surviving Greek Gospel manuscripts; neither in the two 3rd century papyrus witnesses to John; nor in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, although all four of these manuscripts may acknowledge the existence of the passage via diacritical marks at the spot. The first surviving Greek manuscript to contain the pericope is the Latin/Greek diglot Codex Bezae of the late 4th or early 5th century.
Jerome reports that the pericope adulterae was to be found in its usual place in "many Greek and Latin manuscripts" in Rome and the Latin West in the late 4th Century. This is confirmed by some Latin Fathers of the 4th and 5th Centuries CE; including Ambrose, and Augustine. The latter claimed that the passage may have been improperly excluded from some manuscripts in order to avoid the impression that Christ had sanctioned adultery:
"Certain persons of little faith, or rather enemies of the true faith, fearing, I suppose, lest their wives should be given impunity in sinning, removed from their manuscripts the Lord's act of forgiveness toward the adulteress, as if he who had said, Sin no more, had granted permission to sin."
Bishop J.B. Lightfoot wrote that absence of the passage from the earliest manuscripts, combined with the occurrence of stylistic characteristics atypical of John, together implied that the passage was an interpolation. Nevertheless, he considered the story to be authentic history.
Augustine slanders all previous document tenders as intentionally cutting out the passage, because they're insecure in their marriages and have whore wives who would fornicate on them if they thought they could get away with it.
Lightfoot admits that the passage is an interpolation not written by John, but somehow arrives at the conclusion that it's accurate??!!
What of these suspicious diacritical marks in the older manuscripts?
Wiki link for diacritical marks says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:Greek diacritical marks, which showed that letters of the alphabet were being used as numerals.
This is a number --> XX.
Obviously this eludes to a tale of adulterous intrigue.
Wiki link for Greek Diacritics says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The complex polytonic orthography notates Ancient Greek phonology.
Pronunciation notations. Just as you might imagine. Nothing that I might interpret to corroborate the concatenation of bogus testimony to John's epistle.
Wiki link for Augustine says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:Augustine of Hippo ... was an early Christian theologian whose writings are considered very influential in the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. ... [H]e is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers. Among his most important works are City of God and ....
In his early years, he was heavily influenced by Manichaeism and afterward by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus. After his conversion to Christianity and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to philosophy and theology, accommodating a variety of methods and different perspectives.
Always a good sign when pagans develop their own approach to Christianity five hundred years after the fact, and then become influential.
Wiki link for Manichaeism says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:Manichaeism was a major gnostic religion, originating in Sassanid-era Babylonia.
Religion from Babylonia ...
Wiki link for Gnosticism says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:Many heads of gnostic schools were identified as Jewish Christians by Church Fathers ...
Modern research (Cohen 1988) identifies Judaism, rather than Persia, as a major origin of Gnosticism. ... Recent research into the origins of Gnosticism shows a strong Jewish influence, particularly from Hekhalot literature.


Seems like the perfect background for a guy you would want to be your church father.
Wiki link for City of God says:
Pertinent snippets selected by T-J wrote:The City of God is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo.
Despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the Empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political. Christianity, he argued, should be concerned with the mystical, heavenly city, the New Jerusalem — rather than with earthly politics.
Though The City of God follows Christian theology, the main idea of a conflict between good and evil follows from Augustine’s former beliefs in Manichaeanism. ... Later, when Augustine converted to Christianity he at one point accepted Neo-Platonism. He ends up adding an idea of Neo-Platonism with a Christian idea in The City of God when he says: “As for those who own, indeed, that it was made by God, and yet ascribe to it not a temporal but only a creational beginning …”
Adamic Men shouldn't take dominion over the earth and live their lives abode in The Law. They should withdraw from yucky politics and leave the kikes unfettered in their deeds.
Also a plus that Augustine "
adds in" pagan ideas while he's church fathering.
The whole drama is a huge bag of filth. So much for KJV being the Divinely inspired and unadulterated Word of God.