Excerpt from Bulletin of Columbia Theological Seminary, Vol. 22: July, 1929 Egyptian, Syrian, Latin, etc. These versions bring the total manu script evidence into other thousands. No one scholar, however industrious, is able to cope with all the mass of New Testament evidence. One must build upon the labors of the other. Magnificent work has been done in the past. The most decisive labors in this department were performed be fore 1888 by those great textual scholars, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Westcott, Hort, and others. So well was this work done that Hort could write in his introduction to the edition of the New Testament published in 1881 by himself and Dr. Westcott, that the amount of what can in any sense be called substantial variation from the original words can hardly form more than a thousandth part of the entire text. God has been wonderfully good in making the text of our New Testament so sure to us. But New Testament students are not content to let the matter rest here. The work of Textual Criticism has continued since the time of Westcott and Hort. New manuscript evidence has been discovered, known manuscript evidence which was not at that time available has been compiled, and the world is waiting today for some scholar or group of schol ars to give the students of the New Testament a new edition of Tischendorf's monumental compilation of textual evidence, which will embody all more recent findings. Textual criticism is one of the most exact of sciences. It works with almost mathematical precision. Every minister ought to know at least the principles of Textual Criticism. He ought to know enough to be able to judge for himself exactly of what the New Testament books really consisted as they came from the hands of their authors. On the linguistic Side, the study of the New Testament has been progressing with the interest of a romance. The New Testa ment has a Jewish background; its authors were for the most part of the Hebrew race; but the whole of it was written in Greek. Jesus spoke for a native tongue the current Aramaic of Palestine, but the record of what He said has come down to us only in Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.