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For, let the ample and highly complex provision which Divine Wisdom hath made for
the effectual conservation of that crowning master-piece of His own creative skill,THE
WRITTEN WORD,be duly considered; and surely a recoil is inevitable from the strange
perversity which in these last days would shut us up within the limits of a very few
documents to the neglect of all the rest,as though a revelation from Heaven had
proclaimed that the Truth is to be found exclusively in them. The good Providence of the
Author of Scripture is discovered to have furnished His household, the Church, with
(speaking roughly) 1000 copies of the Gospels:with twenty Versionstwo of which go
back to the beginning of Christianity: and with the writings of a host of ancient Fathers.
(Quoted in Revision Revised, p 338, emphasis his, underline mine)
Behold then the provision which THE AUTHOR of Scripture has made for the effectual
conservation in its integrity of this portion of His written Word! Upwards of eighteen
hundred years have run their course since the HOLY GHOST by His servant, Paul,
rehearsed the mystery of Godliness; declaring this to be the great foundation-
fact,namely, that GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH. And lo, out of two hundred and
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fifty-four copies of S. Pauls Epistles no less that two hundred and fifty-two are
discovered to have preserved that expression. Such Consent amounts to Unanimity;
and, (as I explained at pp 454-5,) unanimity in this subject-matter, is conclusive.
(Revision Revised, pg 494, emphasis his, underline mine)
The Causes of Corruption of the Traditional Text
Not that we would imply that permanent mischief has resulted to the Deposit from the
vagaries of individuals in the earliest age. The Divine Author of Scripture hath
abundantly provided for the safety of His Word written. In the multitude of copies,in
Lectionaries,in Versions,in citations by the Fathers, a sufficient safeguard against
error hath been erected. (Causes of Corruption, pg 98)
Burgon explains how varying manuscripts are a proof of preservation, not a testimony against
preservation:
Witnesses of different kinds; from different countries; speaking different
tongues:witnesses who can never have met, and between whom it is incredible that
there should exist collusion of any kind:such witnesses deserve to be listened to most
respectfully. Indeed, when witnesses of so varied a sort agree in large numbers, they
must needs be accounted worthy of even implicit confidence Variety it is which
imparts virtue to mere Number, prevents the witness-box from being filled with packed
deponents, ensures genuine testimony. False witness is thus detected and condemned,
because it agrees not with the rest
It is precisely this consideration which constrains us to pay supreme attention to the
combined testimony of the Unicials and of the whole body of the Cursive Copies. They
are (a) dotted over at least 1000 years: (b) they evidently belong to so many divers
countries,Greece, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, Alexandria, and other
parts of Africa, not to say Sicily, Southern Italy, Gaul, England, and Ireland: (c) they
exhibit so many strange characteristics and peculiar sympathies: (d) they so clearly
represent countless families of MSS., being in no single instance absolutely identical in
their text, and certainly not being copies of any other Codex in existence,that their
unanimous decision I hold to be an absolutely irrefragable (sic) evidence of the Truth.
(Traditional Text, pg 50-51)
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