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1 Joseph Smith diary, October 15, 1843,
Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the History of the Church, VI, 57 (and consequently in Joseph Fielding Smith, compiler, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1938], p. 327),
2 Harold K. Moulton, Papyrus, Parchment and Print: The Story of how the New Testament Text has reached us (London: United Society for Christian Literature, 1967), p. 9,
3 King James translators to different textual readings at Matt. 1:11; 26:26; Luke 10:22; 17:36; I Cor. 15:31; Eph. 6:9; Heb. 10:17; Jas. 2:18; and II Jn. 1:8.
4 Elizabeth Armstrong, Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 137.
6 Jack Finegan, Encountering New Testament Manuscripts: A Working Introduction to Textual Criticism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1974), p. 59.
7 Richard C. Trench, On the Authorized Version of the New Testament in Connection with Some Recent Proposals for Its Revision (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873), p. 59,
8 Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt: Text mit Apparat (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1913);
Alexander Souter, Nouum Testamentum Graece, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947);
Henr. J. Vogels, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, 4th ed. (Freiburg im Breisgau and Barcelona: Herder, 1955);
Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, and Kurt Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 25th ed. (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1963);
R. V. G. Tasker, The Greek New Testament, Being the Text Translated in the New English Bible, 1961 (Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, 1964);
Augustinus Merk, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, 9th ed. (Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1964);
José M. Bover, Novi Testamenti: Biblia Graece et Latina, 5th ed. (Madrid, 1968);
Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Carlo M. Martini, Bruce M. Metzger, and Allen Wikgren, The Greek New Testament, 3rd ed. (United Bible Societies, 1975).
9 Revised Standard Version, 2nd edition 1971 (New York: American Bible Society).
10 Ernest C. Colwell, "Scribal Habits in Early Papyri: A Study in the Corruption of the Text," in The Bible in Modem Scholarship, ed. by J. Philip Hyatt (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1965), p. 376,
11 Alexander B. Bruce, "The Synoptic Gospels," in The Expositor’s Greek Testament (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), I, 582.
12 Marcus Dods, "The Gospel of St. John," in The Expositor’s Greek Testament (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910), I, 853.
13 New English Bible, second edition (Oxford University Press, 1970).
14 Jerusalem Bible (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966).
15 J. H. Bernard, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. John (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929), p. 615.
16 Leon Morris, The Gospel According to John (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1971, p. 791.
18 Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (London and New York: United Bible Societies, 1971), p. 559.
20 Adam Clark, The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... with a Commentary and Critical Notes (New York, 1831), II, 488.
21 William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 19 57), p. 655,
22 Metzger, Commentary, p. 632.
24 Francis Beare, The First Epistle of Peter, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958), p. 90.
25 Clark, Commentary, II, 809.
26 Metzger, Commentary, p. 689.
Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 2nd ed. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 201,
27 Alexander Ross, The Epistles of James and John (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1954), p. 179. Italics in the original.
28 J. Harold Greenlee, Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1964), pp. 126, 128.
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