H/t to Andy Underhile.
"Not only did the early Fathers cite all twenty-seven books of the New Testament, they also quoted virtually all the verses in all of these twenty-seven books. Five Fathers alone from Irenaeus to Eusebius possess almost 36,000 quotations from the New Testament. Sir David Dalrymple claimed to have found among the quotations of the second and third centuries 'the entire New Testament, except eleven verses.' We know of no other book from the ancient world which exists today en toto by way pf thousands of individual and selected quotations of it. It is an amazing fact that the New Testament could be reconstructed simply from quotations made within two hundred years of its composition."
Chapter 3, From God To Us, Norman Geisler and William Nix
"Not only did the early Fathers cite all twenty-seven books of the New Testament, they also quoted virtually all the verses in all of these twenty-seven books. Five Fathers alone from Irenaeus to Eusebius possess almost 36,000 quotations from the New Testament. Sir David Dalrymple claimed to have found among the quotations of the second and third centuries 'the entire New Testament, except eleven verses.' We know of no other book from the ancient world which exists today en toto by way pf thousands of individual and selected quotations of it. It is an amazing fact that the New Testament could be reconstructed simply from quotations made within two hundred years of its composition."
Chapter 3, From God To Us, Norman Geisler and William Nix
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