The Lower Criticism was employed to study the text of the Scripture, and included investigation of the manuscripts, and the different readings or renderings of the sacred text in the various versions and codices and manuscripts in order to come as close as possible to the original words as they were written by the Divinely inspired writers. The current term generally used is Textual Criticism
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The Lower Criticism was employed to study the text of the Scripture, and included investigation of the manuscripts, and the different readings or renderings of the sacred text in the various versions and codices and manuscripts in order to come as close as possible to the original words as they were written by the Divinely inspired writers. The current term generally used is Textual Criticism. See [[Exegesis]].