The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels is the sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by the late John William Burgon, arranged, completed, and edited by Edward Miller. The text says that the Gospels were certainly not written till some thirty years after the Ascension, and that more careful examination seems to place them later rather than earlier. The writer suggests that the three first were not published long before the year 70 A.D. at the earliest, and that St. Matthew's Gospel was written at Pella during the siege of Jerusalem amidst Greek surroundings.

The writer says that what may now be regarded as a fact is the connexion between the Western Text, as it is called, and Syriac remains in regard to corruption in the text of the Gospels and of the Acts of the Apostles. The text notes that St. Mark relates that on a certain occasion the multitude, when they beheld our Saviour and his disciples on their way in a ship crossing to the other side of the lake, ran together.