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Originally Posted by DTK  I have no desire to get into this argument, but the statement above is one of the most ignorant remarks I have ever seen. You owe it to yourself to correct it, winky eye or not. | Perhaps you haven't had to listen to some of the ignorant remarks I have been privy to. If so, you would understand my natural inclination to see your evaluation as classic over-exaggeration. Since the leisureliness of my statement appears offensive to you, I will retract it and replace it with a quotation -- quotations from authorities usually meet with academic approval. Quote: |
I am utterly unable to believe, in short, that God’s promise has so entirely failed, that at the end of 1800 years much of the text of the Gospel had in point of fact to be picked up by a German critic out of a waste-paper basket in the convent of St. Catherine; and that the entire text had to be remodelled after the pattern set by a couple of copies which had remained in neglect during fifteen centuries, and had probably owed their survival to that neglect; whilst hundreds of others had been thumbed to pieces, and had bequeathed their witness to copies made from them." [Dean Burgon, The Traditional Text, p. 12]
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