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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 11. September 6, 1951

By Comparison

By Comparison

The New Testament is one of the best attested documents in existence. "There is no ancient document or collection of documents which can compare with the New Testament for antiquity and number of extant copies—the next best is the Old Testament."

Earliest Virgil 350 years after his death; Livy 500 years; Plato 1300, but the earliest existing fragment of the New Testament goes back to within 100 years of its composition.

It is more important to note that original sense remains doubtful in scarcely one thousandth part of the text, fifteen of these are important, and not one involves a religious truth.

"To cast doubt," said Klausner in 1926, "on Coptic Gospels becomes more impossible."