"The number of manuscripts of the New Testament…is so large that it is practically certain that the true reading of every doubtful passage is preserved in some one or other of these ancient authorities. This can be said of no other ancient book in the world.
Scholars are satisfied that they possess substantially the true text of the principal Greek and Roman writers whose works have come down to us, of Sophocles, of Thucydides, of Cicero, of Virgil; yet our knowledge depends on a mere handful of manuscripts, whereas the manuscripts of the New Testament are counted by hundreds, even thousands."
Frederic G. Kenyon, Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isa 40:8)
Dene Ward
Scholars are satisfied that they possess substantially the true text of the principal Greek and Roman writers whose works have come down to us, of Sophocles, of Thucydides, of Cicero, of Virgil; yet our knowledge depends on a mere handful of manuscripts, whereas the manuscripts of the New Testament are counted by hundreds, even thousands."
Frederic G. Kenyon, Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isa 40:8)
Dene Ward
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