The NT in the Original Greek

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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*January 30, 2010
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   *THE NEW TESTAMENT in the ORIGINAL GREEK*

*The Text established by Ivan Panin by means of Bible Numerics,*

*By*

*Dr. C. CAMERON WALLER*

*Principal of Huron College,*

*London, Ontario*

*(written 1934)*


 *January 30, 2010*


 Here we have the result of labors extending over the past forty-four years,
a complete Greek Testament without any alternative readings.


 Before saying anything about the manner in which the Editor has determined
the text, it might be well to state that as far as the writer of this review
has been able to investigate it, by looking at the notorious places where
the text has been disputed by scholars, it confirms the text as printed in
Nestle's edition published by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Actually, Mr. Panin used Westcott and Hort's texts as his standard of
comparison. But he does not follow them nor any other editor nor manuscript.
His text is determined by internal phenomena called “numerics” of which more
must be said later.


 The point which the writer is trying to make at the moment is that as a
tree is to be judged by its fruits, the text under consideration shows that
the labors of scholars during the last hundred years particularly have been
leading us nearer to the true text.


 The general trend of textual criticism of the N.T. has been to confirm the
view that the true text lay somewhere between the two extremes represented
towards the end of the nineteenth century by Burgon on the one hand and
Westcott and Hort on the other, speaking in terms of texts, the Textus
Receptus versus the Revisers. Actually Panin's text retains the last twelve
verses of St. Mark and the first eleven verses of St. John 8. On the other
hand, in St. Luke 2:14 we are to read “men of good will” and in 1 Timothy
3:16 “Who” not “God” was manifested.


 But we must turn to the principles on which the text down to the minutiae
of spelling and punctuation has been determined.


 In 1890, Mr. Panin discovered that a mathematical symmetry underlay the
vocabulary and text of the New Testament. It is not the place here to go
into all the details. The first point is that if you take any complete
paragraph of any book of the N.T. you will find a marvelous symmetry running
through the vocabulary and text used. These phenomena do not appear in other
Greek books. Then every word in Greek has a numeric value because the
letters have to serve as numbers in Greek and Hebrew. There is a numeric
value to every word, therefore, and these phenomena are constant. Mr. Panin
give instances in his preface which any student can verify. The facts are
indisputable. It is idle to say there is not a numeric symmetry underlying
the actual text and vocabulary of the New Testament which could not possibly
have been designed by man. It is there. It would be just as foolish to say a
flake of snow is not made up of a number of minute crystals of countless
shapes and beauty, because the winds and atmospheric conditions bring snow.


 Mr. Panin has, as far as the writer knows, issued no theory of inspiration.
He has discovered that the very words of the Divine books have a divine
symmetry which could not have been designed by man, but which mark out the
Bible as different from other books.


 It has appeared to some critics of his work that this was to reduce
Inspiration to something mechanical. The present writer cannot see that the
objection is valid. Holy men of old spoke and wrote as they were moved by
the Holy Spirit. We do not anywhere have to suppose that the writers were
unconscious or that their human powers did not function when they were thus
guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor on the other hand do we have to limit their
words to the meanings which they put upon them. One may quote Horace and
Shakespeare as applying to present day affairs in senses which those authors
did not foresee. But when it comes to the Bible, as soon as we press the
exact words, we are told we are treating it mechanically, and the phrase
“Verbal Inspiration” has been twisted to mean something that those who first
used it never contemplated.


 Ivan Panin's work takes the phenomena of Numerics which he has studied for
over forty years and applies the symmetries which he has discovered to the
purpose of determining how the words of the New Testament should be spelled,
in what order they should come, whether variants found in different editions
are right or wrong when judged by the marvelous harmonies and symmetries of
Numerics. It might also be well to state that it is not easy for an ordinary
student to check the details of numerics. One can count the vocabulary of
any section, but Mr. Panin has had to construct his own concordances showing
the numeric value of each word, and the fact that he has been able to do the
work single handed, is a testimony to his diligence.


 The results are available for our benefit.



 *NOTE**:* Dr. Waller has this word at the end of his article: The New
Testament may be obtained for 2 dollars or 8/- plus 4d. postage, from those
whose addresses are given on the front cover. Of course, this information is
no longer valid. This article was given to me in pamphlet form by Dr. Jewel
in Victoria, B.C., in 1944. In 1945 I ordered all the Works by Ivan Panin,
20 in all, that appear on the back cover of this pamphlet. When I received
from Toronto Mr. Panin's Bible Numeric Greek N.T., and read his 23 page
Introduction, I have been engaged in these subsequent years in preparing an
Interlinear Greek N.T., making use of Mr. Panin's Numeric tested Greek text
printed in 1934, plus his English translation of it. Both these texts are
still available from Toronto, at $25.00 each.


 Mr. Panin's Introduction to his Greek text of 23 pages, is one of the most
remarkable articles I have ever read. It is this Introduction that persuaded
me to put over 50,000 hours of my time in this project, plus countless Greek
Word studies based on this same work, plus an outline of the entire Bible
also based on the Numeric Phenomenon.


 For those interested in the purchase of the Greek Bible Numeric New
Testament, Turn to our Website: <*2rbetter.org>* . Click on “Interlinear”.
See “Notes on Numeric Interlinear Greek NT by Ivan Panin. At the bottom
under “Reaching Unbelievers through Bible Numerics: and published by “The
Evangelical Fellowship of Canada”, Click on the following URL on their
Website. Then click on the “Keith L. Brooks” link in this article. It will
bring up all available books “by” or “on” Ivan Panin, and how to order.


 Or - you can write: *J. W. Irwin*

*Bible Numerics*

*81 Bayview Ridge*

*Toronto ON Canada M2L 1E3*


 or Email:

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