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Chapter .X°

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Two tasks now need to be done if the next generation is to have a better, that is, a more accurate, New Testament. First, much of the evidence which has come to light in the last eighty years must be collected and published in a usable form. Second, on the basis of this evidence a new edition of the text of the Greek New Testament must be prepared. If the first is done, the second will be done. If the second is done, new translations, or English versions of the New Testament, will be made.

The collection of the evidence of the manuscripts as to the wording of the Greek New Testament is called "A Critical Apparatus for the Greek New Testament." The standard for such an edition was set by Tischendorf in 1869 in his eighth edition of the Greek New Testament. This was discussed in chapter iv (pp.22-26). Tischendor.f's edition went far toward making available the evidence that was discovered between 1516 and 1869. His edition was a tremendous achievement, how tremendous only those who have struggled with similar problems can testify.

But more manuscripts were discovered after 1869, and, of the earlier ones, Tischendorf knew some of his manuscripts only in part.

What is the Best New Testament by ERNEST CADMAN COLWELL

PREFACE

THE University of Virginia in ***1947*** invited me to deliver a series of lectures on the manuscript sources of the New Testament. These lectures were given as the James W. Richard Lectures in Christian Religion in the autumn of that year. The present volume is a rewriting and enlargement of the Richard Lectures.

I wish to take this opportunity to thank President Colgate Darden of the University of Virginia and Professor S. V. McCasland for the many courtesies shown me in Charlottesville.

I must acknowledge also my indebtedness to scholars from many countries whose labors have supplied the material which is here presented. My association with these scholars in the study of New Testament manuscripts has been an exceedingly pleasant one; and I hope that they will tolerate this effort to make scholarly lore intelligible to the layman.

ERNEST CADMAN COLWELL

EMORY UNIVERSITY, GEORGIA **** September 4 1951

Lore1 7lCr8 Webster.s New World Dictionary

5ME < OE lar, learning, teaching, akin to Ger lehre, teaching: see LEARN6

1 [Archaic] a) a teaching or being taught; instruction b) something taught

2 knowledge or learning; specif., all the knowledge of a particular group or

having to do with a particular subject, esp. that of a traditional nature

Chapter Ix

HOW ACCURATE IS YOUR NEW TESTAMENTT?<

Page 85

IF You care about your New Testament, you will want to know what "make" it is, who translated it, and, above all, how accurate it is. The translator may diminish, but he cannot materially increase, the accuracy of the particular Greek New Testament from which he makes his translation. In the matter of accuracy, therefore, the primary question is, "How accurate a New Testament was it translated from?"

As a brief answer to this question seventeen translations are listed below, roughly in the order of their accuracy:

Translation

Goodspeed:

The American Translation Source Westcott and Hort

Date 1923 Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Translation Source Date

Twentieth Century Westminster	Westcott and Hort Westcott and Hort	1898-1901 1913-35	New York: F. H. Revell Company London: Longmans,
			Green and Com
			pany
American Revised Ver-	King James &	1901	New York: Thomas
sion	Westcott and		Nelson and Sons
	Hort
English Revised Version	King James &	1881	London; Oxford
	Westcott and		University Press
	Hort	:
Revised Standard Version	King James &	1946	New York: Thomas
	Westcott and		Nelson and Sons
	Hort
Moffatt	Von Soden	1913	New York: Harper
			and Brothers
Riverside (Ballantine)	Nestle (approx.)	1923	Boston: Houghton

Mifflin Company

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What Is the Best New Testament?

Translation Source Date Publisher

Weymouth Weymouth's Re- ¹9⁰3 Boston! Pilgrim

sultant Press

Spencer Westcott and Hort 1895 New York: Macrnil

(approx.) lan Company

Basic English Souter 1941 London: ,Cambridge

University Press

Ferrar Penton Westcott and Hort 1895 London: Oxford

University Press

Centenary Westcott and Hart 1924 Philadelphia: Ameri

can Baptist Publi

cation Society

Confraternity Latin Vulgate 1941 Paterson, N.J.: St.

Anthony's Guild

Press

Ronald Knox Latin Vulgate 1944 New York: Sheed

and Ward, and

many others

Challoner Latin Vulgate 1779 London: Sheed and

Ward, and many

others

King James Textus Receptus 1611 London; Oxford University Press

and many others

The ranking of these translations was based originally on the translator's own statements as to their source; but this has been checked and corrected by a test as to the relationship of each one of these translations to --two forms of the Greek Now Testament-the Westcott and Hort text and the Textus Receptus or Received Text. I carried out this test for the entire content of the Gospel of John. In this gospel the two Greek texts were compared verse by verse; and, from the large list of differences noted, sixty-four passages were selected in which even the freest English translation must show which of the two Greek texts it supports. These sixty-four passages are cited at the end of this chapter. The two forms of the Greek texts were selected as being generally regarded by scholars as the best or most accurate text in the case of Westcott and Hort, or the worst or most corrupt text in the case of the Textas Receptus. The ranking of the

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translations would not be changed appreciably if Tischendorf or Nestle were substituted for Westcott and Hort. The contrast between any modern scholarly edition and the Textus- Receptus would have the same proportions. On the basis of this assumption each of the seventeen translations

Table 1 September 4 1951

	AGREEMENTS WITH		i
TRANSLATION	Westcott and Hort	Textus Receptus	OTHERS ~
Goodspeed	64	O	.. ...
Twentieth Century ...... . , . . . . .	59	4
Westminster..............:....	58	6
American Revised Version.......	58	6
.English Revised Version...	57	7
Revised Standard Version., . , . .	55	8	... ...
Moffatt....~..................	56	7
Riverside ..... .............. ..	55	4
Weymouth. , ...... . ...........	53	11
Spencer .................	52	13	... ...
Basic English ..............	51	I2
Ferrar F'enton.............. ...	50	¹4	i
Centenary .................. .	47	16	I
Confraternity...::.............	35	27	s
Knox..,.... ................	33	29	a
Challoner. .............	25	37	a
King James. . . . . . „ . . . . . . . . . . .	0	64

was tested in sixty-four passages in the Gospel of John, and the resultant agreements with one or

the other of the Creek texts are presented in Table 1

The editions of the translations sampled in this test are those listed on pp. 85-96, with the exception of (a) the 1948 edition of Goodspeed; (b) the Twentieth Century, 1904.; (c) the 1940 edition of Spencer; (d) the 1905 edition of Fenton; (e} the Moffatt published by George H. Doran & Co.; and ( f ) the 1928 edition of Challoner.

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Here is a List That *** Imitates *** Colwell's Method with MOST Newer Bibles

What is the Best New Testament: Colwell's Apparatus
Colwell's apparatus was taken from his book, "What Is The Best New Testament" University of Chicage Press, 1951.
Colwell's Rule of Bible Translations
Versions in bold italics are those Colwell had printed, the others are added by me using the same criteria.

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Translation	Agrees with the Critical Text	Agrees with the later Textus Receptus	Other
New World Translation	64	0	0
21st Century NT*	64	0	0
Goodspeed*	64	0	0
Rotherham	62	2	0
Byington/BLE	61	3	0
New Revised Standard	60	3	1
20th Century NT	59	4	1
Lattimore	59	5	0
New American Standard	59	5	0
Westminster	58	6	0
American Standard Ver.	58	6	0
Revised Version 1885	57	7	0
Beck's An American Trans	56	8	0
New Jerusalem Bible	56	8	0
Revised Standard Version	56	8	0
New American Bible	56	7	1
Moffatt	56	7	1
New Berkeley Version	56	7	1
Riverside New Testament	55	9	0
Barclay's New Testament	55	8	1
Kleist & Lilly New Test.	55	9	0
Wuest's Expanded Trans.	54	10	0
New English Bible	53	9	2
Holman Christian Standard	53	11	0
God's Word Translation	53	11	0
Weymouth's New Test.	53	11	0
Williams New Testament	52	12	0
English Standard Version	52	10	2
Spencer	51	13	0
New International Version	51	10	3
Basic English Bible	51	12	1
New Century Version	51	12	1
International Standard Ver	50	14	0
Ferrar Fenton	50	14	0
Good News Bible	50	12	2
Jerusalem Bible	49	15	0
Recovery NT	49	15	0