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An Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume—dedicated to B. B. Warfield—Robertson explains the purpose and uses of textual criticism for exegesis, interpretation, and preaching. Following in the tradition of Westcott and Hort, he explains textual principles for students of Greek, as well as for a wider audience.

In 1550 ROBERT ESTIENNE (STEPHANUS) published the third edition (Editio Regia) of his Greek New Testament (the first in 1546, the second in 1549) which was based directly on the work of Erasmus with marginal readings from fifteen other manuscripts, one of which was the Codex Bezae (D). This text became the Textus Receptus of Britain. Stephanus was a Parisian printer. His edition of 1551 was published at Geneva and was the first New Testament to give our verse divisions, a device that on the whole
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