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This edition is based on the widely known “Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament” of Bruce M. Metzger. It was especially designed for translators who have not received formal training in textual criticism. It enables them—and other people interested in the initial text of the Greek New Testament—to discover more easily the reasons that certain variant readings in the NT are more likely to...

read in modern translations notes such as Other ancient authorities read, Other ancient authorities add, Other ancient authorities lack, and Many witnesses omit. Let us take Galatians as an example: NIV does not have a single note in Galatians indicating textual problems; REB has only three textual notes; and NRSV has seven. So translators may be surprised when they discover that the Greek New Testament lists twenty-eight places in Galatians alone where ancient manuscripts have different readings.
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