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Updated: May 4, 2025
Hort in the introductory volume to Westcott and Hort's Greek Testament, to the clever and instructive genealogical method, and to the numberless applications of it that have given their Greek Testament the pre-eminence it deservedly holds if this be the meaning of the Provost's estimate of the critical knowledge of the Company, I should not have taken any exception to the words.
I plan to read Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament all through, again, this winter." ... This was a sop to his religious sentiment. I related how I had first read the New Testament in the Greek, while on a cattle-boat, in the China Seas.... "Gregory, you're quite mad ... but you're a smooth one, too!" his eyes gleamed, amused, behind his glasses....
"I wish I had never come back to this hell-ship, at Brisbane!" "I wish I had never come aboard at all at Sydney!" At such times, and at other odd ends of leisure, I brought my Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament from my bunk, and with the nasty smell of sheep close-by, but unheeded through custom I studied with greater pleasure than I ever did before or since.
In the blanket I carried a change of shirts the sky-pilot had given me, a razor, a toothbrush, a Tennyson, and a Westcott and Hort's Greek New Testament with glossary, that I had stolen from a bookstall in Sydney. I found out where the dock was, nevertheless, where the men were loafing about in groups, waiting to be taken out to the South Sea King ... which lay in the harbour.
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