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Excerpt from The English Revisers' Greek Text: Shown to Be Unauthorized Except by Egyptian Copies Discarded by Greeks and to Be Opposed to the Historic Text of All Ages and Churches
In the years 1847 - 8 these early convictions were personally confirmed. In the Karaite synagogue of Cairo, Egypt, whose succession dates back to the age of Alexander, who, bc. 332, invited Jews to settle, for commercial reasons, in Egypt, while the patriarch read from one of the oldest manuscripts preserved among the Jews since Christ's day, the boys were seen to follow the patriarch with small, bound copies, prepared from manuscripts kept among Euro pean Christians, and published by'the British and Foreign Bible Society at London. Im mediately the conviction was formed that the agreement between these copies demonstrated the perfect integrity of the Hebrew text; a con viction confirmed, when subsequently a decree of the head patriarch of the Jews at Salonica, the ancient Thessasolica, Greece, commended these copies of the British and Foreign Bible Society's issue as strictly conformed to the manuscripts preserved among the Jews. The possibility of a like demonstrative proof as to the manuscripts of the New Testament grew up between Alexandria, Egypt, and Athens, Greece. In the convent at Mount Sinai there was exhibited to a large and wealthy English.
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