The best instrument of Education is the Holy Scripture in its original language. (Christopher Wordsworth)
All, at least, by whom I know that pamphlet to have been read, acknowledge that I have exerted myself laboriously, and in a religious spirit, to obtain a pure text of the New Testament. (Johann Albrecht Bengel)
The primary goal of GreekNewTestament.Net’s textual research is to recover what the New Testament writers originally 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 significant amount of money, such as purchasing expensive books (e.g., the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 facsimile costs €5,113.00, and the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis facsimile costs €5,800.00), out-of-print books (Google wasn’t around back then), subscriptions to journals, traveling, and more.
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 )
Soden had at his disposal a large sum of money given to enable him to employ numerous assistants, in order to scour the libraries of the East for MSS hitherto unknown or not carefully examined… (B.H. Streeter)
To achieve our goal of collating ancient manuscripts of the New Testament, we need to work on this project on a full-time basis. Unfortunately, we can only pursue what we love during our spare time, as we are not financially able to quit our day jobs. That is why we admire Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, an English biblical scholar who lived in the 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)
Begging for donations from strangers to help us with this project is something we dislike. We sincerely apologize for this situation and hope you will understand our predicament and come to our assistance.
You can be our Elise Konig.
With the support of Elise Konig, a wealthy patron who provided him with the necessary funds (and who deserves special recognition – may her tribe increase!), von Soden was able to enlist the efforts of about 40 colleagues in all for the task of collating MSS in the libraries of Europe and other lands. (Kurt Aland)
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