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The Words of the New Testament, as Altered by Transmission and Ascertained by Modern Criticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This text offers the first guide to biblical criticism tailored for a popular audience. Part one offers a helpful grammar of textual criticism, including discussions of the nature and number of textual variants in the New Testament, the ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, ancient versions of Scripture, the use of the New Testament in extrabiblical ancient sources, and a history of biblical...

IT has been said that the three classes of witnesses to which we have to appeal for the determination of the true text of the New Testament, are manuscripts of the Greek text, translations into other languages made from that text, and citations in the Fathers of the Church. We have first to make a comparative estimate of these three classes. Of the three it will appear that we must look first and chiefly to manuscripts of the Greek text. For, 1. As to citations
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