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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>THE
NEW TESTAMENT in the ORIGINAL GREEK</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>The
Text established by Ivan Panin by means of Bible Numerics,</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>By</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Dr.
C. CAMERON WALLER</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>Principal
of Huron College,</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>London,
Ontario</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>(written
1934)</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><b>January
30, 2010</b></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Here we have the result of
labors extending over the past forty-four years, a complete Greek
Testament without any alternative readings.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left">
<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">But we must turn to the
principles on which the text down to the minutiae of spelling and
punctuation has been determined.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">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.</font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">The results are available for
our benefit.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
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.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">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. </span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">For
those interested in the purchase of the Greek Bible Numeric New
Testament, Turn to our Website: <</span></span><b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://2rbetter.org">2rbetter.org</a>></span></b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
. 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.</span></span></font></p>
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