According to
Miller,2 Dr. Ezra Abbot of the
Revision Committee said that about 95% of the various readings have so little
weight that no one would think of them as rival readings, and that 95% of the
remainder are of so little importance that their adoption or rejection would
make no appreciable difference in the sense of a passage where they occur.
Miller also quotes Schaff 3 to
the effect that of the 150,000 variations only about 400 affect the sense, and
of these only about 50 are of real significance, and that not one of those 50
affect an article of faith or a precept of duty which is not abundantly
sustained by other and undoubted passages. Many of the variations are of no
more importance than failure to dot an “i” or to cross a “t” would be in
English.
2 H. S. Miller, General Biblical Introduction (Houghton,
N.Y.: The Word-Bearer Press, 1947), p. 280.
3 Ibid., p. 280.
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