I would recommend NOT getting Metzger's book as he was quite liberal in his theology...to the point of not even considering the original inspired documents to be inerrant.
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Larry Bray
Elder - Reformed Presbyterian Church of Boothwyn, PCA
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http://www.rpcb.org/ Free Online Reformed Seminary -
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