Quote#Nature
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the…
Quote byFrederic G. Kenyon · 1863–1952
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 136.
English (original)
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.
— Frederic G. Kenyon
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