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One of the most common biblical manuscripts used to make our modern English translations is known today as the Nestle Text. Yet it was Prof. Eberhard Nestle himself who warned us in his Einfhrung in die Textkritik des griechischen Testaments: "Learned men, so called Correctores were, following the church meeting at Nicea 325 AD, selected by the church authorities to scrutinize the sacred texts and rewrite them in order to correct their meaning in accordance with the views which the church had just sanctioned."
I got curious about the Nestle "quote" so I decided to search for it and I found the book at "Internet Archive." Maybe you can help me out. I did a word search and could not find the quote. Here is a quote from page 113. You might have trouble searching, the entire book is in German. Good luckSt. Jerome wrote: "They write down not what they find but what they think is the meaning; and while they attempt to rectify the errors of others, they merely expose their own" (Jerome, Epist. lxxi.5).
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4°. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Classical Series part. Viii). Der genaue Wortlaut von T lässt sich nicht mohr feststellen, aber klar ist, von diesen 3 Fassungen des Verses kann nur eine odor auch gar keine die ursprungliche sein. Hätte man nur unsre ältesten Unzialen odor die grosse Masse der Minuskeln, so hätte kein Mensch eine Ahnung, dass in unsrem griechischen Texte nicht alles in ordnung.
Einführung in das griechische Neue Testament [microform] : Nestle, Eberhard, 1851-1913 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
FYI I searched in German. Since the "quote" from Nestle does not seem to exist that casts considerable doubt on the Jerome quote.Einführung in das griechische Neue Testament [microform] : Nestle, Eberhard, 1851-1913 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A word of advice when quoting 2d-3d hand quotes you should research them and make sure they actually said what you quoted. Sometimes folks deliberately misquote so-called experts to further their false teachings.
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