Justin Andrusk

“Professor Warfield once observed, “It is not the mere number of years that is behind any ms. that measures its distance from the autograph, but the number of copyings”.[”
― Malcolm H. Watts, The Lord Gave the Word: A Study in the History of the Biblical Text

“The Byzantine text was the underlying text of all the great English Protestant Bibles, including those associated with the names of William Tyndale (1525), Miles Coverdale (1535), John Rogers (1537), and Richard Taverner (1539), as well as those known as The Great Bible (1539), The Geneva Bible (1560), The Bishops’ Bible (1568), and, of course, the Authorized Version (1611); and the Reina in Spanish, the Karoli in Hungarian, the Luther in German, the Olivetan in French, the Statenvertaling in Dutch, the Almeida in Portuguese and the Diodati in Italian.”
― Malcolm H. Watts, The Lord Gave the Word: A Study in the History of the Biblical Text

“Painstaking scholarly research has shown that Justin Martyr (100-165 AD), Irenaeus (130-200 AD), Clement of Alexandria (150-215 AD), Tertullian (160-220 AD), Hippolytus (170-236 AD), and even Origen (185- 254 AD) quote repeatedly from the Byzantine text.”
― Malcolm H. Watts, The Lord Gave the Word: A Study in the History of the Biblical Text

“Codex Sinaiticus, dated in the mid- or late-fourth century, contains only a part of the Old Testament but the whole of the Greek New Testament. It is the only complete uncial manuscript of the New Testament extant. This Egyptian codex was written on vellum, with four columns of forty-eight lines on each page, but there are clear indications in the text itself that it has several times been corrected.”
― Malcolm H. Watts, The Lord Gave the Word: A Study in the History of the Biblical Text