The school opposed to us must disprove our arguments, not by discrediting the testimony of the Fathers to whom all Textual Critics have appealed including Dr.Hort, but by demonstrating if they can that the Traditional Text is not recognized by them, or they must yield eventually to us[1].
In this volume, the other half of the subject will be discussed.

Instead of exploring the genuine Text, we shall treat of the corruptions of it, and shall track error in its ten thousand forms to a few sources or heads.

The origination of the pure Text in the inspired writings of the Evangelists will thus be vindicated anew by the evident paternity of deflections from it discoverable in the natural defects or iniquities of men.

Corruption will the more shew itself in true colours:-- Quinquaginta atris immanis hiatibus hydra[2]: and it will not so readily be mistaken for genuineness, when the real history is unfolded, and the mistakes are accounted for.

It seems clear that corruption arose in the very earliest age.