This recipe came together while making black bean soup and realizing I had extra tortillas and cheese on hand. After assembling a quesadilla with provolone and pepper jack, I decided to smother it in the black bean soup and finish with cotija cheese, avocado, and sour cream. Here’s how to make it:

Ingredients

For the Quesadilla:

• Flour tortillas

• Provolone cheese

• Pepper jack cheese

For the Black Bean Soup:

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

• 1 large red onion, chopped

• 1 large carrot, peeled and diced

• 2 celery ribs, diced

• 1 jalapeño pepper, deseeded and diced

• 4 garlic cloves, minced

• 2 teaspoons ground cumin

• 1 teaspoon dried oregano

• 1 teaspoon ground coriander

• 1 teaspoon kosher salt

• ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper

• 3 (15-ounce) cans low-sodium black beans, drained and rinsed

• 3 cups low-sodium vegetable or chicken broth (add more if needed)

• 1–2 tablespoons fresh lime juice

Optional Toppings:

• Cotija cheese

• Avocado

• Sour cream

• Fresh cilantro

• Red onion

• Extra lime wedges

Directions

1. Make the Black Bean Soup:
   Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrot, celery, and jalapeño; cook 4–5 minutes until softened. Stir in garlic, cumin, oregano, coriander, cayenne, and salt; cook for 1 minute until fragrant. Add black beans and broth, bring to a boil, then reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes. Use an immersion blender to partially puree the soup, leaving some texture. Stir in lime juice.

2. Assemble the Quesadilla:
   Place provolone and pepper jack cheese between two flour tortillas. Toast in a skillet over medium heat until the cheese melts and the tortillas are golden.

3. Assemble the Enfrijolada:
   Place the quesadilla on a plate and ladle the black bean soup generously over it. Top with cotija cheese, avocado, sour cream, and any other desired toppings.

Serve immediately and enjoy!

Here are some lines that stood out to me the most:

Then I got down on my knees and I did say thank you to God and right then and there joy and peace came into my soul. I knew then what it was to be born again in the Bible which had been so dry to me before became everything- page 21

Instead of going and telling others of the love of Christ, I was selfish and kept the knowledge to myself. The result was that gradually my love began to go grow cold and the love of the world began to come in. I spent 6 years in that unhappy backslidding state - page 36

For instead of trusting entirely to God to show me, I went to my friends. Thus, I tried to find out the Lord's guidance by common Sense and instead of getting into the light I got into darkness, I became very restless and anxious. My health gave way and I had to go into the country to recuperate- page 38

I am not willing but I am willing to be made willing- page 51

He wanted to take away the sham jewels to give me the real ones- page 51

Remember that mere soul saving is comparatively easy work and is not nearly so important as that of manufacturing the saved ones into saints soldiers and saviors- page 80

God has made things so plain to me and enables me to put it plainly to others. Here is the gist of what I tell them. Assurance of salvation depends on the fact that Jesus paid the penalty of your sin not on any feeling of yours as Christ died for you. You belong by rights to him. After further explanation, I say will you not in a practical business way on your knees, yield yourself and all to Jesus? Yes, then he or she says does it and I ask if Jesus has accepted them. If they do not know, I simply ask if God is a liar, which at once produces the required assurance as it is impossible for God to have lied. Then I tell the inquirer to ask in one sentence for the holy Spirit and he does it. That I ask has he been given by they say method the answer comes back. Yes then I tell him to thank God for one having accepted him and two having given the holy Spirit. Then I say don't worry or fret or think or try but just be anxious from nothing. Only trust and obey his voice. Rejoice and be glad in Jesus always. The feeling will come in due course but is it? It is a fact that God has given the holy Spirit do not hinder God by helping him but quit hindering him. They come long-faced and go away sparkling and beaming- page 107

I always think that the essence of a good dinner or breakfast party is not the tablecloth nor even the nature of the food, but the company I think precisely the same concerning the Lord supper- page 124

But this can only be accomplished by a red, hot unconventional unfettered, holy Ghost religion where neither church nor State neither man nor traditions are worshiped or preached, but only Christ and him crucified- page 167

Don't go into the study to prepare a sermon. He once said that is all nonsense go into your study to go to God and get so fiery that your tongue is like a burning hole and you've got to speak- page 227

Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 5 mins
Servings: 4 sandwiches

Ingredients

• Sourdough bread

• ⅓ cup basil pesto

• ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt or mayonnaise

• 2 large ripe tomatoes, cut into ½-inch slices

• 8 oz fresh mozzarella

• Flaky salt

• Freshly ground black pepper

• Arugula

• 1–2 tbsp thick balsamic glaze

• Extra-virgin olive oil

Directions

1. Cut the Bread:
   Slice the baguette or rolls in half lengthwise using a serrated knife.

2. Scoop the Bread:
   Gently scoop out some of the bread from the inside to make room for the fillings. (Enjoy the extra bread or save for homemade breadcrumbs.)

3. Make the Spread:
   Mix together the basil pesto and Greek yogurt or mayonnaise.

4. Spread on Bread:
   Evenly spread the pesto mixture onto both cut sides of the bread, making sure to get into all the nooks and crannies.

5. Add Toppings:
   Layer the mozzarella and tomato slices on the bottom half of the bread. Sprinkle with flaky salt and freshly ground black pepper.

6. Finish:
   Add fresh basil leaves and arugula. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar or glaze and a bit of extra-virgin olive oil. Place the top half of the bread on and press gently.

7. Serve:
   Enjoy the sandwiches cold, or toast them in the oven for a warm, melty version. Slice and serve.

The biggest takeaway for me was the constant focus on reality versus rhetoric. Time and again, Sowell demonstrates that to understand an issue, you must look past the stated goals of a policy and instead analyze the incentives it actually creates. So many well-intentioned ideas can lead to disastrous unintended consequences simply because they ignore this fundamental principle.

This entire framework is built on the inescapable concept of scarcity, which forces us to accept that in life, there are no perfect solutions—only trade-offs.

Below are the quotes that really drove these points home for me. They represent a shift in thinking from judging actions by their intentions to understanding them by their results.

"Most of us hate even to think of having to make such choices indeed as we have already seen some middle-class Americans are distressed at having to make much mild choices and trade-offs, but life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of these options." - pg 7

The cost of watching a television sitcom or soap opera is the value of the other things that could have been done with that same time - pg 22

In a price coordinated economy, employees, and creditors insist on being paid, regardless of whether the managers and owners have made mistakes, this means that capitalist businesses can make only so many mistakes for so long before they can either stop or get stopped, whether by an inability to get the labor and supplies they need or buy bankruptcy. In a feudal economy or a socialist economy leaders can continue to make the same mistakes indefinitely. The consequences are paid by others in the form of standard of living lower than it would be if there were greater efficiency in the use of scarce resources. - pg 26-27

Continuing transactions between buyer and seller makes sense only if the value is subjective, each getting what is worth more subjectively. economic transactions are not a zero some process where one person loses whatever the other person gains - pg 31

In short people tend to do more for their own benefit than for the benefit of others - pg 32

However, unattractive greed may be it is likely to move food, much faster, saving more lives - pg 32

As Will Rodgers once said, we couldn't live a day without depending on everybody". Prices make that dependence viable by linking their interest with ours - pg 33

Understanding any subject requires that it first be defined so that you are clearing your own mind as to what you are talking about and what you are not talking about - pg 64

Analyzing economic actions in cause-and-effect terms means examining the logic of the incentives of being created rather than simply thinking about the desirability of the goals being sought - pg 65

Incentives matter because most people will usually do more for their own benefit and for the benefit of others - pg 72

An economy based on prices, profits and losses, gives decisive advantages to those with greater knowledge and insight - pg 95

Given the scarcity of mental resources an economy in which knowledge and insights have such decisive advantages in the competition of the marketplace is an economy, which itself has a great advantages in creating a high standard of living for the population at large - pg 100

It is not just ignorant people, but also highly educated and highly intellectual people like George Bernard Shaw, Carl, Marx, Nehru, and John Dewey, who have misconceived profits as arbitrary charges, added onto the inherent cost of producing goods and services too many people even today high profits are often attributed to high prices charged by those motivated by greed in reality most of the great fortunes in American history have resulted from someone's figuring out how to reduce costs so has to be able to charge lower prices and therefore gaining mass market for the product - pg 115

As a professor at the London business school, put it some organizations have reached a scale and complexity that made risk management errors almost inevitable, while others had become so bureaucratic, and top-heavy that they had lost the capacity to respond to changing market demands - pg 122

Many of the great American fortunes by Rockefeller, Carnegie, and others came from finding lower costs ways of producing and delivering the product to the consumer and in charging lower prices then their higher cost competitors can meet those learning away their customers - pg 129

Since it is impossible to prove a negative, the accused company cannot disprove that it was pursuing such a goal, and the issue simply becomes a question of whether those who hear the charge choose to believe it - pg 173

More generally in almost any occupation, your productivity depends not only on your own work, but also on the cooperating factors such as the quality of the equipment management and other workers around you - pg 196

In short productivity is not just a result, solely of what the individual worker does, but is a result of numerous other factors as well to say the demand for labor is based on the value of the workers productivity is not to say that pay is based on merit merit and productivity are too very different things just as morality and causation are two different things - pg 197

Ultimately, it is economic prosperity, which makes it possible for billions of dollars to be devoted to helping the less fortunate - pg. 198

If for example, women were paid only 75% of what men of the same level of experience and performance were paid and any employer could hire four women instead of three men for the same money and gain a decisive advantage in production cost over competing firms - pg 211

Although most modern industrial societies have minimum wage laws, not all do. Switzerland has been a rare exception and has and has had very low unemployment rates in 2003. The economist magazine reported Switzerland's unemployment neared a five-year high of 3.9% in February. Swiss labor unions have been trying to get a minimum wage. Law passed arguing that this would prevent exploitation of workers. However, the Swiss cabinet still rejected the proposed minimum wage law in January 2013. Its unemployment rate at the time was 3.1%. Singapore likewise has no minimum wage law and its unemployment rate as likewise been 2.1% - pg. 221

It would be comforting to believe that the government can simply decree higher pay for low-wage workers without having to worry about unfortunate repercussions, but the preponderance of evidence indicates that labor is not exempt from the basic economic principle that artificially high prices cause surpluses - pg. 225

Where exploitation is defined as the difference between the wealth that an individual creates in the amount that individual is paid then babe Ruth may have been the most exploited individual of all time - pg. 259

The industrial revolution was not created by highly educated people, but by people with practical industrial experience, the airplane was invented by a couple of bicycle mechanics who had never gone to college - pg. 271

in order to avoid having to speculate like this, the farmer may in effect pay professional speculator to carry the risk while the farmer sticks to farming the speculator signs, contracts to buy or sell at prices fixed in advance for goods to be delivered at some future date. This shifts the risk of the activity from the person engaging in it, such as the wheat farmer. In this case, to someone who is in effect betting that he can guess the future prices better than the other person that has the financial resources to write out the inevitable wrong bets in order to make a net profit overall because of the bets that turn out better - pg. 285

If over a period of 10 years, you pay a total of $9,000 in premiums for insurance to cover some property and then suffer $10,000 in property insurance to cover property damages that the insurance company must pay for. It might seem that the insurance company has lost money. If, however, your $9,000 in premium payments have been invested and have grown to $12,000 by the time you require reimbursement for property damage, then the insurance company has come out $2,000 ahead. According to the economist magazine, premiums alone are rarely enough to cover claims and expenses and in the United States. This has been true of this. Have been true of property casualty insurers for the past 25 years in 2004 automobile and property insurers in the United States made a profit from the actual insurance underwriting itself for the first time since 1978 - Page 318

Both social and economic policies are often discussed in terms of the goals they proclaim rather than the incentives they create- page 342

Again, with the depositor's writing checks on their accounts while part of the money in those accounts is also circulating as loans to other people. The banking system is in effect adding to the national money supply over and above the money printed by the government- page 382

By setting the interest rate on the money that it lends to the banks, the Federal reserve system indirectly controls the interest rate that the banks will charge the general public- page 385

However, with the rest of us, their experience illustrates again. The fact that one of the best ways of understanding and appreciating an economic function is by seeing what happens when that function does not exist or malfunctions- page 387

People with careers in government may be unlikely to be so willing to sustain damage to their own careers for the good of others- page 389

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor, so long as you have money - page 402

However, when in electric utility company buys cool to burn to generate electricity, a significant part of the cost of the electricity generating process is made by people who breathe the smoke that results from the burning of the coal and whose homes and cars are dirty by the soot cleaning, repainting and medical cost paid by these people are not taking into account in the marketplace because these people do not participate in the transactions between the coal producer and the utility company- page 411

When the state of Maryland passed a higher tax rate on people earning a million dollars a year or more, taking effect in 2008, the number of such people living in Maryland fell from nearly 8,000 to fewer than 6,000. Although it had been projected that the additional tax revenue collected from these people in Maryland would rise by 106 million. Instead, these revenues fell by 257 million when Oregon raised its income tax in 2009 on people earning $250,000 or more organs income tax revenues likewise fell by 50 billion- page 427

However, among the things that wealth buys is more and better education as well as more leisure time that can be devoted to political activities and the mastering of legal technicalities all this translates into a disproportionate influence of what wealthier people in the political process, while the fact that those who are not rich often have more money in the aggregate than those who are may give ordinary people more weight in the market than in the political or legal arena, depending on the issue and the circumstances- page 456

Both markets and governments must be examined in terms of their incentives and constraints- page. 467

No one likes to admit being mistaken, but under the incentives and constraints of profit and loss, there's often no choice but to reverse course before financial losses. Threaten bankruptcy in politics. However, the cost of the government's mistakes are often paid by the taxpayers, while the cost of admitting mistakes are paid by the elected officials- page 469

In short, higher wage rates per unit of time are not the same as higher costs per unit of output. It may not even mean higher labor costs per unit of output and of course labor costs are not the only costs- page 488

These thousand economists, including many leading professors of economics at Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago accurately predicted retaliatory tariffs against American goods by other countries. They also predicted that the vast majority of American farmers who are who are among the strongest supporters of tariffs would lose out on net balance as other countries restricted their imports of American farm products. All these predictions were fulfilled, unemployment grew worse and us form exports plummeted along with a general decline in America's international trade- page 490

When the number of jobs in the American steel industry fell from $340,000 to 125,000 during the decade of the 1980s that had a devastating impact and was big economic and political news. It also led to a variety of laws and regulations designed to reduce the amount of steel imported into the country that competed with domestically produced steel, of course this reduction in supply led to higher steel prices within the United States and therefore higher costs for all other American industries that were manufacturing products made of steel which range from automobiles to oil rigs. All these products made of steel were now at a disadvantage and competing with similar foreign made products both within the United States and in international markets. It has been estimated that the steel tariff produced 240 million in additional profits to the steel companies and saved 5000 jobs in the steel industry at the same time. Those American industries that manufacture products made from this artificially more expensive steel, lost and estimated 600 million in profits and 26,000 jobs as a result of the steel tariffs. In other words, both American industry and American workers as a whole were worse off on net balance as a result of the import restrictions on steel- page 491

In other words, whether consumers lose greatly exceeds what the workers gain, making the society as a whole worse off- page 499

Cultures that promote the rule of law rather than arbitrarily Powers exercised by leaders have increasingly been recognized as major factors promoting economic development- page 554.

Such condemnations of economics are due to the fundamental fact that economics is a study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses. We might all be happier in a world where there were no such constraints to force us into choices and trade-offs that we would rather not face, but that is not the world that human beings live in or have ever lived in during thousands of years of recorded history- page 586

Whether in urgent or less urgent matters, many believe that those with political power are better qualified to make moral decisions than are the private parties directly concerned- page 589

We also need to keep in mind a clear moral distinction between doing things that let us vent or pent up feelings and doing things likely to actually help those who have been unfortunate in the circumstances into which they were born- page 595

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable- page 600

Smith argued that wealth consisted of the goods and services, which determined the standard of living of the people. The whole people who to Smith constituted the nation

But in the economy, Smith argued that governments were giving a most unnecessary attention to things that would work out better if left alone to be sorted out by individuals, interacting with one another and making their own mutual accommodations- page 601

As he was deciding what career to pursue the increasing urgency of economic studies as a means towards human well-being grew upon me- page 611

Controversies have raged in science, but what makes a particular field scientific is not automatic unanimity on particular issues, but a commonly accepted set of procedures for resolving differences about issues when there are sufficient data available- page 617

However, economics is scientific only in the sense of having some of the procedures of science, but the inability to conduct controlled experiments prevents its theories from having the precision and repeatability often associated with science- page 618

Success is only part of the story of a free market economy failure is at least as important apart though few want to talk about it and none want to experience it- page 633

Naturally individuals and groups who want their own particular contributions to the process to be better rewarded but their complaints or struggles over this are a sideshow to the main event of complementary efforts which produce the output on which all depend -page 633

1. The bubbles are spaced far apart. Bubble Terlingua offers several bubbles scattered throughout the area. There’s a section of “community bubbles” that share a pool and are separated by concrete walls—this is where we stayed. If you’re traveling with family and booking multiple bubbles, be aware that you could end up 10–15 minutes apart.

   

2. There’s another area near the restaurant “Venga,” where my sister-in-law stayed. Heads up: the roads leading here are rough!

   Some bubbles have their own private pool on top of a hill. My father-in-law stayed in one of these.

   

3. It’s about an hour’s drive to Big Bend National Park.

4. Our favorite restaurant was “Venga” for its lively atmosphere and outstanding food—the smash burger is a must-try. We also visited Starlight Diner and Espresso y Poco Mas. Starlight Diner had live music and a fun vibe, but the cafeteria-style food was underwhelming.

Overall, Bubble Terlingua is a unique experience—just be prepared for some distance between accommodations and a bit of rugged driving!

July 23, 2025

A fine half-baked harvest recipe. Go check it out at https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/spicy-pesto-pasta-alla-vodka/

July 21, 2025

Honey Mustard Salmon Bowls with Avocado-Feta Herb Salad

I think this is from the half baked harvest cook book. I can't remember which one. Just buy them all they are all great :)

Check out my printables makes at https://www.printables.com/@alextricity_237831/makes

The post appears to be a brief invitation to view the author's 3D printing projects on the Printables platform.

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The blog post appears to document a scenic flight experience with the author's father-in-law on July 6th, 2025. The image seems to be related to an aviation experience.

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February 03, 2021

A colorful narrative of Theodore Roosevelt's family, childhood, and extraordinary living. This book is not focused on his time as president. Rather, it pays much attention to the people whom he grew up with. It's filled with quotes from letters to and from his family and those closest to him.

Highlights:

It is said also that among those who came looking for Roosevelt backing was Alexander Graham Bell, who hooked up his newly invented telephone so that Theodore could talk from his desk to a room down the hall. While agreeing that it was an interesting device, with potential as a toy perhaps, Theodore thought it had no real future and refused to put money into it.

"Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies", the elder Theodore wrote.

..his father had given him a brief lesson in economy -- this in view his possibly entering a life of science wherein he could expect to earn little or no money. The great trick was to "keep the fraction constant," his father had said. If one could not increase the numerator, then he must reduce the denominator.

Long afterward he was to write, "There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first, raging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gunfighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."

"But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue."

..increased the area of the national forests by some forty million acres, established five national parks, sixteen national monuments (including the Grand Canyon), four national game refuges, fifty-one national bird sanctuaries, and made conservation a popular cause.

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I realize that, as I get further along in life, it's even more important to maintain a regular reading habit for continual education. An idle mind tends towards complacency, complacency tends towards ignorance, and ignorance is what ultimately lures us into giving in to our emotions, especially the most sensitive ones. Anger, hate, lust, indulgence, misanthropy, and guile. These feelings are something that were not a problem for me when I was young, but now that I'm older there is an unwanted emergence. A manifestation of being taken advantage of, getting hurt, an ardent and unrelenting desire and pursuit for self-gain. However, understanding the humanities, history, psychology, and general human mannerisms has helped with coping with some of these emotions. I understand this is not enough. The battle against our darkest emotions is not merely psychological. There is a spiritual aspect I have come to also regularly neglect like a swinging pendulum. I do not want to be a swinging pendulum. I need consistency, temperament, stability, and strength. I believe establishing a regular reading habit will address these concerns, or at least it's a good start. Each couple of months I would like to read and complete one book of several categories that are important to me.

What are the things I believe to be important to me? First, the spiritual aspect. A healthy regard for the things unseen and beyond my control. A belief of a higher and wiser power that I should fear and respect, but I could also find comfort in. These spiritual things have been interpreted for me through the Holy Scriptures and through the help of spiritual books.

Category One: Spiritual Book

My literacy and vocabulary have always needed help. I'm constantly encountering words I'm not familiar with and I still unfailingly mis-spell common words. Through reading biographies, autobiographies, novels, and well-written works about the humanities I aspire to strengthen these skills.

Category Two: Novels, Biographies, Humanities

I've always enjoyed technology. The running of electrons through copper wire and circuits, producing a translatable language with the help transistors, resisters, switches, and micro-controllers. The synergistic relationship between the hardware and the software has enlightened me since my youth. I am especially interested in how we interact with these devices, the design and layout of data so it not only looks clean, but runs clean.

Category Three: Programming, Computer Hardware, Software Data Structures

How will I obtain these books? Probably with the use of the median that's so prolific in this country. Our economy, trade, and consumerism is what provides for our needs and our wants, while at the same time bringing to light our truest forms of habits and intents. When it comes to money management, I could use all the help I could get. I hope to one day run a business, learning how the market operates in the U.S. and local region is important.

Category Four: Money Management, Business, Economics

Anything more than these four categories would be too ambitions for me. I don't consider myself a fast reader, it's more of an exercise for me. Like going to the gym - sometimes I just have to force myself. By establishing a healthy consistent habit I hope to find joy in the bindings I surround myself with. I even might find some rest it in, to the point where if I had a choice to either watch TV or read one of these books, I would chose the books.

"How We Got The Bible" written by Neil R. Lightfoot is a concise and introductory book that gave me a foundational panoramic of the history of the Bible. From manuscripts to being in the possession of the "boy in the plow", the history of Bible no doubt is a miraculous one.

This is my first time reading about the history of the Bible and honestly I was quiet overdue. It's something every Christian who believes in the Bible should know. The contents and basis of our faith are inscribed in this wonderful compilation.

Lightfoot has done a fantastic job explaining the important aspects of the discipline, without ever becoming tangential. Chapter after chapter, the authorship and canonization of both the Old Testament and New Testament are concisely described.

However, even though the book is introductory, it wasn't all an easy read. The terminology and rhetoric used has a very academic tone, meant for a more thorough discussion at the end of each chapter. It's meant for a student, not a casual reader. Nonetheless, that shouldn't deter the casual reader interested in the Bible. The history is presented in way that would be fascinating to any Christian believer.

A lot of my questions were answered. Regarding the inconsistencies found among the early manuscripts, Lightfoot writes concerning the scribe's intentional errors:

"Unintentional alterations in the manuscripts are many, but the vast majority of them are of little consequence. What presents a more serious problem to the textual critic are the variant readings that have been purposefully inserted by the scribe. We ought not think these insertions were made by dishonest scribes who simply wanted to tamper with the text. Almost always the intentions of the scribe is good and he wants only to "correct" what appears to be an error in the text. So if a word seems improperly spelled, or a Greek verb does not have the proper ending, or a form does not correspond with the classical idiom, then the scribe feels it is his duty to improve the text he is copying." - pg. 90

Lightfoot then goes on to set some principles of textual criticism, how these inconsistencies are reconciled, and what is truly important is whether or not these inconsistencies change the textual bearing.

Some sections that stood out to me:

Our New Testament text of today is a reconstructed or restored text. It has been reconstructed by modern scholarship from three independent lines of witnesses: the manuscripts, the versions, and the writings of early Christians (Church Fathers). - pg. 112

The text of the New Testament, therefore, rests on solid foundations. A great part of the New Testament text has never been questioned. - pg. 126

Sir Frederic Kenyon often expressed his confidence on the wholesome condition of the Biblical text. He once wrote, "The Christian can take the whole Bible in his hand and say without fear or hesitation that he holds in it the true word of God, handed down without essential loss from generation to generation through the centuries." - pg. 126

The Massoretes were not concerned with only such things as proper pronunciation. They also sought ways and methods by which to eliminate scribal slips of addition or omission. - pg. 132

When the church of Christ was first established, it had no thought of a New Testament. Its Bible was the Old Testament and its new teachings were based on the authority of Christ as personally mediated through the apostles. -pg. 156

In A.D. 367 Athanasius of Alexandria published a list of twenty-seven books of the New Testament that were accepted in his time, and these are the same twenty-seven that are recognized today. - pg. 159

Tyndale's sacrifice for his cause has long been appreciated, but it is doubtful if many today know how direct and pervasive his influence was on the English Bible. It was Tyndale who established its tone, that the Bible should not be in the language of scholars but in the spoken language of the people. -pg. 178

Steadfastly defending these principles, unbending to the end, on an October morning in 1536, Tyndale went to the stake. He was strangled and burned, crying out, "Lord, open the king of England's eyes." - pg. 180

What can be said in favor of the American revision? First, the revision of 1901 is based on a Greek text which is far superior to that employed by the King James translators. Many of the earlier and most important New Testament manuscripts that were not known in 1611 were accessible to the revision committee, and accordingly its translation was based on these manuscripts. -pg. 190