George Salmon analyzes the history of New Testament textual criticism up to 1897. He explains the major issues in biblical text criticism, including Westcott and Hort’s nomenclature, the Syrian Textus Receptus, the omissions of the Western text, the synoptic problem, and the problem of accounting for Western variations. Though he asks critical questions, Salmon concludes with the assertion, “The doubt that hangs over a few determinations [of the text] does not affect the certainty of our faith.”
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