...since. Dr. Scrivener, who has a great reputation for extensive knowledge on this subject, has said that " the worst corruptions to which the New Testament...within a hundred years after it was composed ; that Irenseus [AD 150], and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church,...

...this contention a quotation, from the most learned of the ^Revisionists themselves, which affirms " that the worst corruptions, to which the New Testament...originated within a hundred years after it was composed." The line of argument by which this alleged inferiority of earlier MSS. is sustained, is singularly...

...appended to a modern book are from the main body of the work (Account of the Printed Text, p. 138 note). It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound,...Fathers and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church, used far inferior manuscripts to those employed by Stunica, or Erasmus, or Stephens...

...manuscripts. The fact that they are the oldest manuscripts militates rather against, than for, their purity. "The worst corruptions to which the New Testament...originated within a hundred years after it was composed." After a brief introduction of thirty-nine pages, in which the author states these objections, he takes...

...of Tertullian, of Jerome, must needs be the ipsissima verba of the SPIRIT. Whereas it is notorious "that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament...years after it was composed : that Irenaeus and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church, used far inferior manuscripts to those employed...

...and the depravations of Holy Writ become avowed and flagranti. A competent authority has declared it "no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to irhich the New Testament has been erer subjected originated within a hundred years after it was composed...

...great authority, has formed a much higher estimate of the character of the Textus Receptus. He says : " It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound,...Fathers, and the whole Western with a portion of the Syrian Church, used far inferior manuscripts to those employed by Stunica, (Complutensian Editor) or...

...great authority, has formed a much higher estimate of the character of the Textus Receptus. He says : " It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound,...within a hundred years, after it was composed ; that Irenseus, and the African Fathers, and the whole Western with a portion of the Syrian Church, used...

...other hand, Mr. Scrivener says (Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, p. 386), ' Irenoeus and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian, Church used far inferior manuscripts to those employed by Stunica, or Erasmus, or Stephens...

...words in Dr. Scrivener's Introduction, which should prevent rash inferences and hasty conclusions : — 'It is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound,...Fathers and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church, used far inferior manuscripts to those employed by Stunica, or Erasmus, or Stephen,...