Manuscript Copies (4 of 15 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 11 BIBLICAL CRITICISM - TEXTUAL
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Angus-Green quote Dr. Eberhard Nestle:

For no literary production of antiquity is there such a wealth of manuscripts as for the New Testament. Our classical scholars would rejoice were they as fortunate with Homer or Sophocles, Plato or Artistotle, Cicero or Tacitus, as Bible students are with their New Testament. The oldest complete manuscripts of Homer that we have date from the thirteenth century A.D., and only separate papyrus fragments go back to the Alexandrian age. All that is extant of Sophocles we owe to a single MS., dating from the eighth or ninth century, in the Laurentian Library at Florence. But of the New Testament, 3,829 MSS. have been catalogued to the present time.⁶

6            Angus and Green, op. cit., p. 48.

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