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Tenet ecclesia nostra, tenuitque semper firmam illam et immotam Tertulliani regulam |Id verius quod prius, id prius quod ab initio.| Quo propius ad veritatis fontem accedimus, eo purior decurrit Catholicae doctrinae rivus.'

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Cave's Prolog. p. xliv.

Interrogate de semitis antiquis quae sit via bona, et ambulate in ea.' -- Jerem. vi.16.

In summa, si constat id verius quod prius, id prius quod ab initio, id ab initio quod ab Apostolis; pariter utique constabit, id esse ab Apostolis traditum, quod apud Ecclesias Apostolorum fuerit sacrosanctum.' -- Tertull. adv. Marc.1. iv. c.5.

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The Causes Of The Corruption Of The Traditional Text

Burgon's analysis of how the biblical text became corrupted through accidental scribal errors and intentional alterations, examining specific textual variants and providing case studies of textual corruption.

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