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“It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21

“Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter V, The English Bible, p. 49

“All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39

“Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42

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“It is a fascinating story to those who care for their Bible. It is the life-history of the greatest of books, diversified by interesting episodes which appeal to our human sympathies; and we venture to think that the result is reassuring. It may be disturbing to some to part with the conception of a Bible handed down through the ages without alteration and in unchallenged authority; but it is a higher ideal to face the facts, to apply the best powers with which God has endowed us to the solutions of the problems which they present to us; and it reassuring at the end to find that the general result of all these discoveries and all this study is to strengthen the proof of the authenticity of the Scripture, and our conviction that we have in our hands, in substantial integrity, the veritable Word of God.”

Frederic G. Kenyon

Source: The Story Of The Bible, Chapter X, The Position Today, p. 144

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