A Thousand Commas

Assess the punctuation of this sentence, according to the author’s own principles.

“I have some satisfaction in reflecting, that, in the course of editing the Greek text of the New Testament, I believe I have destroyed more than a thousand commas, which prevented the text being properly understood.”

Henry Alford (1810-1871)

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