Even if we had the apostolic autographs, there would be room for verbal criticism, since they, like other ancient books, were written as a continuous whole, without accents, without punctuation, without division of sentences or words, without titles and subscriptions, without even the name of the author unless it was a part of the text itself.

FROM “INTRODUCTION” BY PHILIP SCHAFF IN AMERICAN EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK, EDS. B. F. WESTCOTT AND F. J. A. HORT (NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1881), XIII.