# “An embarassment of riches” by Bruce M. Metzger

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2009/07/29/an-embarassment-of-riches-by-bruce-m-metzger/
- Published: 2009-07-29T09:49:02-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“The textual critic of the New Testament is embarrassed by the wealth of material…
Besides textual evidence derived from the New Testament Greek manuscripts and from
early versions, the textual critic has available the numerous scriptural quotations
included in the commentaries, sermons, and other treatises written by early Church
fathers. Indeed, so extensive are these citations that if all other sources for 
our knowledge of the text of the New Testament were destroyed, they would be sufficient
alone for the reconstruction of practically the entire New Testament.”

–Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman, _[The Text of the New Testament](https://www.amazon.com/dp/019516122X?tag=toletaupanre-20)_,
4th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 51, 126.

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