Frederic G. Kenyon Quotes

• The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Inspiration, Ignorant, Criticism

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 2, 1949.

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• The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Doubt, Foundation, Lasts

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• The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Integrity, Book, Doubt

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• The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Editors, Produce, Aim

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 142, 1949.

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• The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Book, Discovery, Years

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4, 1949.

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• It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Earth, Ancestry, Essentials

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.

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• The Gospels were not thought of as works of literature. People were not concerned with the literary reputation of Matthew or Mark, but with the substance of their records of our Lord's life. They did not have to respect their actual words, as they would if they were transcribing the works of Thucydides or Plato.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Plato, People, Substance

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 135, 1949.

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• The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.

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  Mean, Leader, Church

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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

  Writing, Egypt, Numbers

  "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.

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• The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Numbers, Church, Different

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 133, 1949.

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• The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Two, May, New Testament

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87, 1949.

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• 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

  Foundation, Language, Rhythm

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• 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

  Two, Years, Greek

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42, 1949.

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• 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

  Adoption, Greek, Six

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.

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• No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Loss, Serious, Students

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86, 1949.

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