(Chart 9)

CREDIBILITY OF THE BIBLICAL TEXT

"It cannot be too strongly asserted that in substance the text of the Bible is certain. Especially is this the case with the New Testament. The number of manuscripts...of early translations...and of quotations from it...is so large that it is practically certain that the true reading of every doubtful passage is preserved...this can be said of no other ancient book in the world..."

(Frederick G. Kenyon, Our Bible And The Ancient Manuscripts, p. 23)