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D., and considered very good author
IT, on the subject, we find convinc-
ing argument which goes to prove that
Marks is the oldest story of the
Christ. and that Matthew and Luke
used his work as the basis of their
stories, and he says (referring to the
claim that Mark borrowed from
Matthew at present it finds COM
paratively little support among com
ueteut Investigators" Practically
the same story can be found in the
Encyclopedias Americana" subject,
Gospels" Authorities quoted as ia
voring the priority of Marks gospel
Bernhardt, Weiss, Hoffman, Marti-
neau, EstIin Carpenter, Ii. Cone and
are Herder, WeisSe, Wilke, Schenkel,
Volkmar, Weizsacher, Pfleiderer,
neau, Estlin Carpenter, R. Cone and
Able Loisey andhis school OF Modern
lists. We hope it will not be con-
sidered presuming should we assert
that this comes pretty near to estab-
fishing the "concensus of modern
scholarship"
Unfortunately the statement quoted
by Father Dreyer from our article
can be construed into asserting that
modern scholarship" were at one in
saying that the original manuscript
of Mark dates from about the 18th
century But Father Dreyer places
a different construction on the word
manuscript than we intended. AS we
understand the word manuscript"
means written with the hand" and
the Bibles before the invention Of
printing were all written. The pre-
says: "Since the authorized versions
says: Since the authorized version
of 1911 more that 1900 manuscripts
Of the New Testament have become
accessible, and among them the three
oldest and most important" So when
the authorized version was published,
the manuscripts mentioned by Father
Dreyer was not accessible. And
quoting again from the preface to the
10th Century Testament, we find:
The translation of 1911, known as
the Authorized version was
founded on that completed by Wye
life about 1880" And Wycliffe
translated from Latin manuscripts,
and these were of about the 18th cen
tury, and that was the idea we wished
to convey. Now Marks gospel, the
original we mean, was probably writ
ten along about the end of the LIST
century, probably about the year 70
A. D. We do not know this to be so,
but it seems that ;his much can b.
disentangled from the controversy OF
the scholars upon this point. But
the original is nowhere in evidence
and the earliest manuscripts, latel!
discovered, are generally considered tc
be of the date of about the 4th century
But the authorized or King James
version, of Mark is very probably
a revision of the Wycliffe Bible, jus
as the American Revised version i!
a revision of the Authorised Version
of 1911.
The argument that We were trying
to make was that the Bible contained
inaccuracies, and we think we made
our point, and it seems that Father
Dreyer is in substantial accord with
US on that point. We thought there
were several and some very glaring
and should we have made guess, We
probably would have placed the fig.
ures at about 200 or 300, but Father
Dreyer places it at from 80 to &c
thousand, and Sunderland in his
The Bible Its Origin, Growth and
Character page 1877, states that the
American Bible Revision Committee
places the number at the startling
figure of 100000 inaccuracies, but
we feel that possibly a few ciphers
may have unintentionally crept in.
Now, Father Dreyer, quoting Hort,
says: Even among the unquestion-
ably spurious readings of the N. T.
there are no signs Of deliberate falsi-
fcation OF the text for dogmatic pur-
poses" Now let us, TO rinstance,
lack of space and disposition prevents
more examples-look at the 9Th chap
ter of the 1st Epistle of John 7th
and 8th verses, authorized version:
And there are three that bear record
in heaUea, the Father, the Word and
tn Holy Ghost: and these three are
one. And there are three that bear
witness IN earth, the spirit, and the
water an d the blood; and these three
are one"
In the American Revision same
Epistle, same chapter and same vers-
es, We find And it is the spirit that
beareth witness, because the Spirit
is the truth. For there are thre who