The best instrument of Education is the Holy Scripture in its original language. (Christopher Wordsworth)
The primary goal of Greek New Testament Dot Net’s textual research is the recovery of what the New Testament writers wrote. To collate an ancient copy of the New Testament is a task requiring more time, care, and patience than men are very willing to bestow on such an object (Reverend Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener). It also requires a great deal of money (e.g. buying expensive books, out of print books (Google wasn’t around back then), subscription to journals, traveling, etc.).
Textual criticism has virtually ceased to be a subject of active research in present day Germany, that is to say so far as the investigation of textual families, relationship between texts, etc. are concerned. This kind of research requires a great deal of time and money, so that it has almost entirely been transferred to America (W. G. Kümmel on “New Testament Research and Teaching in Present Day Germany” in New Testament Studies, Volume 1, Issue 03, pp 229 – 234, 1955 )
In order to achieve our goal of collating ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, we need to work on this project on full-time basis. Unfortunately, we are only able to do what we love during our spare time as we are not wealthy enough to quit our day jobs. That is why we admire Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (an English biblical scholar who lived in 19th century).
In spite of poverty, opposition, and ill health, Tregelles overcame all difficulties and devoted a lifetime of meticulous labours upon the text of the New Testament as an act of worship, undertaken, as he declares in the preface, “in the full belief that it would be for the service of God, by serving His Church’ (Bruce Manning Metzger)
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