Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
Vogels, in his new “Handbook to New Testament Criticism,” has started some interesting and important enquiries, by a consideration of the changes that can be marked in the copies and versions of the New Testament by an investigator who understands not only how to register various readings but also how to detect the causes of such differences. The evangelical stream is demonstrably discolored by the media through which it passes. The Bible of any given church becomes affected by the church in which it circulates. The people who handle the text leave their finger-prints on the pages, and the trained detective can identify the criminal who made the marks.
1 See Expositor, April 1914, ‘New Points of View in Textual Criticism’; see also my Codex Bezae, p. 232.
2 The omission is corrected in a recently issued supplement.