Frederic G. Kenyon Quotes

• El intervalo, entonces, entre las fechas de la composición original y la evidencia existente más temprana llega a ser tan pequeño como para ser, de hecho, insignificante, y el último fundamento para cualquier duda de que las Escrituras han llegado hasta nosotros sustancialmente como fueron escritas ha sido eliminado. Tanto la autenticidad como la integridad general de los libros del Nuevo Testamento pueden considerarse definitivamente establecidas.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Integrity, Book, Doubt

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• The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Inspiration, Ignorant, Criticism

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 2, 1949.

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• The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Doubt, Foundation, Lasts

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• The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Editors, Produce, Aim

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 142, 1949.

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• The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import; and thanks to the succession of discoveries which have been made of late years, we know more about it than of the history of any other ancient book in the world.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Book, Discovery, Years

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 4, 1949.

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• En efecto, es una prueba sorprendente de la solidez esencial de la tradición que con todos estos miles de copias, remontándose su ascendencia a tantas partes diferentes de la tierra y a condiciones de tan diversa índole, las variaciones de texto sean tan enteramente cuestiones de detalle, no de sustancia esencial.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Earth, Ancestry, Essentials

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.

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• Los Evangelios no se consideraban obras literarias. La gente no se preocupaba por la reputación literaria de Mateo o Marcos, sino por la sustancia de sus registros de la vida de nuestro Señor. No tenían que respetar sus palabras reales, como harían si estuvieran transcribiendo las obras de Tucídides o Plato.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Plato, People, Substance

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 135, 1949.

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• The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Mean, Leader, Church

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• It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Writing, Egypt, Numbers

  "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.

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• The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels were composed in different times and places over perhaps a third of a century, and for a time circulated separately among a number of other narratives of our Lord's life (of which the newly discovered fragment of an unknown gospel may have been one).

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Numbers, Church, Different

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 133, 1949.

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• The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Two, May, New Testament

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87, 1949.

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• Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Foundation, Language, Rhythm

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• Pocas veces pueden haber ocurrido en años sucesivos dos acontecimientos tan trascendentales como entonces. En 1453 los turcos asaltaron Constantinopla y destruyeron definitivamente el Imperio griego, expulsando a los eruditos griegos, que llevaron el conocimiento de la lengua y la literatura griegas al mundo occidental; y en 1454 apareció en la imprenta de Maguncia el primer documento que conocemos.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Two, Years, Greek

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42, 1949.

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• Todo lo que podemos decir es que, como resultado de un proceso que se prolongó desde el siglo IV hasta aproximadamente el VIII, se produjo un tipo de texto estándar, que se encuentra en la gran mayoría de los manuscritos que han llegado hasta nosotros. Al menos el noventa y seis por ciento de los manuscritos existentes del Nuevo Testamento griego son posteriores al siglo VIII; y de ellos sólo unos pocos conservan rastros de los otros tipos de texto que existían antes de la adopción del texto estándar, y a partir de los cuales se creó éste.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Adoption, Greek, Six

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.

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• No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Loss, Serious, Students

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86, 1949.

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