在看一本書,剛看。
Bart D Ehrman的Misquoting Jesus: The story behind who changed the word of the Bible and why
在引言部分有這樣的話
It is one thing to say that the originals were inspired, but the reality is that we don't have the originals—so saying they were inspired doesn't help me much, unless I can reconstruct the originals. Moreover, the vast majority of Christians for the
entire history of the church have not had access to the originals, making their inspiration something of a moot point. Not only do we not have the originals, we don't have the first copies of the originals. We don't even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places. As we will see later in this book, these copies differ from one another in so many places that we don't even know how
many differences there are. Possibly it is easiest to put it in comparative terms: there are more differences among our manus than there are words in the New Testament.