The Detroit times., 1916-11-04
FriasY Moons Speech.


-emon in which he defended the au-
fneniicI,y OF tho Bibls he said
But these 'hinEs are written.
uet ye may believe that Jeslk is
the Christ. tho son Of tod and that
i,lieying . may have lite Ia His
name
How do No know The Bible Ne
read today Il the gsma Biblc that
Jesus and the disc!pea had How
do Ne SnoW that the New Testament
as written by the apostles and how
do We know hat n was not written
in modern tines r. there any rea
enable evidence that the Bible is a.
old a. We suppose II is7 We know
the Bible is here the same az We
know a river is here and the way
20 And out where a river Genes from
~ 10 goo TO its head and the same
with the Bible. we g. up the stream
Cf time, ard NO fnd three old Bibles
the oldest IN existence Somebody
says. How 10 you know that they
ere old % They are written IN Greek
capital letters. 10 spaces, 10 colons,
no commas, no divisions. all :ho sen.
tcnces are Joined together. 50 the
translators had TO take II and put il
together sectior 5y section The
three oldest manuscripts in exist
onCe are owned by the three church
cS. the Greek tho Roman catholic
church and the Prolestn church.
the Sinaitic manuscript, owned by
The Greek church. and discovered by
pr. Tischendorf, a great scholar who
spent MS life studying old manu-
scripts In the year ls4i. IN his
tIavels, he uas in 81 Catherine =
convent AZ the foot OF Mount Sinai,
and az he was walking down the hall
he saw n basket standing there, and
be looked at II, and saw that it con
TONED a Greek Old Testament. He
took about one-thIrd Cf the leaves OF
the manuscript % the other
leaves had been destroyed before he
got the one-thiri that he had-and
II was almost the whole New Testa
ment. a fac-simile Of which Is IN the
British museum AZ London The
vatican manuscript is Owned by the
Catholic church. and Pope Plus the
TX, a. years ago allowed photo
graphic pcture6 to te taken The
vatican library was founded by Pope
Nicholas the ' ir the year l54S,
an dnothtag vas known Of the his
tory OF this maru criDt previous 10
that time. as IL was guarded as care
fully as the crown jewels Of Eng
land. but II is p,most a complete
COPY OF the Bille. Genesis. from !
20 IS missing. Psalms. from lo5 10
~ missing. all ot Pebre " after the
ninth chapter, fourteenth verse.
missing. and II Is considered the
Oldest Greek BiHlc IN the world
= here are MANY others, perhaps. but
iso. they arc buried in the converts
and mCnastarl,s That takes US
back within TOO ,ears Of Jesus
Christ The Alexandria manu- ill
g. owned 10y the Protestant church
and Is I'm the British mU.cam ths
three oldest manuscripts iu 'ti.'.
,u.e. one owned ty In-iml. W 'no
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