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The New Testament Documents "In no
other case is the interval of time between the composition
of the book and the date of the earliest extant manuscripts
so short as in that of the New Testament. The books of the
New Testament were written in the latter part of the first
century; the earliest extant manuscripts (trifling scraps
excepted) are of the fourth century - say, from 250 to 300
years later. This may sound a considerable interval, but it
is nothing to that which parts most of the great classical
authors from their earliest manuscripts. Sir
Frederick G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism
of the New Testament," 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan,
1912), p. 5.
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