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God’s Word in Our Hands: The Bible Preserved for Us is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this follow-up book to the landmark From the Mind of God to the Mind of Man, the Text and Translation Committee discusses the historical preservation of the Word of God. The solid facts of the process by which the Bible has come to its present form are explained in detail. The book includes textual criticism of the existing manuscripts and autographs, including the Textus Receptus, the...

storm.41 After the death of Erasmus, many men took up the mantle of copying, editing, and printing the Greek New Testament. Robert Stephanus printed four editions (A.D. 1546, 1549, 1550, and 1551) with his third edition being the first to include critical apparatus and his fourth edition the first to divide the text into numbered verses. Ultimately, 117 years after the first edition of Erasmus, Bonaventure Elzever (along with his brother, Matthew, and nephew, Abraham) printed his second edition of
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