Principles of Textual Criticism (3 of 12 notes)

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

(3) The sources of the text must be sifted and classified, and the authorities for the variants must be weighed rather than numbered. A reading must be judged by its value, not by the number of its witnesses. One independent manuscript may be worth a score that were copied from the same original.

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