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    the Introduction it is said , that the 1 . V . offers itself to the public , with the additional advantage of the corrections and improvements of Dr . Griesbach ' s second edition : " and lastly , we are told

    that " the editors of the present work offer it to the public as exhibiting to the English reader a text not indeed absolutely perfect , but approaching as nearly to the apostolical and evangelical originals , as the present state of sacred criticism will admits From all

    these circumstances we were led to conclude that the text of Gries - bach ' s second edition , had been made the unvarying standard ; and we acknowledge that we had

    frorp the , first hoped that this would be the case . This hope arose , not from the idqa that Gr iesUa ^ ch ' s text was altogether incapable of improvement , but from . fche full conviction of its

    unrivalled excellence , and from the belief that the unvarying employment of it ( in the text at least s ) would disarm our critical opponents of one of their most powerful charges against us , * that we alter the scriptures to suit oujc

    own system . Our conclusion arose from presumptive , not positive evidence ; and it proves to have been erroneous * Fr (> m different causes , tlicj I . V . docs not uniformly follow GriesbaelTs second edition .

    In some cases the-- variations are intentional ; in pth ' crs . ' they appear to have arisen from following Newcome ( who translated of course fronl the first edition ) without , observing the changes which Orfe&baeh had made in his

    second edition * We cannot but regret both classes . The variations are iji a very few instances

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    only , of material consequence ; yet we are of opinion that i * greater confidence would have beejj felt in the I . V . if there had been none . The reader after perusing pages containing such unqualified approbation of

    Griesbaqh ' s text , may justly ask the Editors , why they did not uni - formly employ it ? Their reasons they have not assigned ; but supposing them to have been fully adequate , three things should have been done;—the reader should

    have been informed to what degree Griesbach ' s text had been made the standard ; —wherever Griesbach ' s text is left , it should have been clearly stated what his reading is;—and , the reasons should uniformly have been given for their variation . We think this

    a point of considerable consequence ; and in some other department of our next number ^ we propose to insert a statement of all the departures from the text of Gricsbach .

    Were it at all probable that any of our readers have not the power of seeing the I . V . we should , with great readiness , enter into the grounds of the opinion , that Griesbach ' s text ought hencclbrwards to be made the

    standard text ; but a careful perusal of the very accurate and perspicuous Introduction , jnust render this unnecessary , for no competent and unprejudice 4 judge can rise from it , without the conviction ^ that the claims of Griesbach's text to this hi

    rank , are indisputably and very greatly superior to those of th $ received text , and of any other which has been published . If any should suppose that the pre * ferehce given by Unitarian criti c *

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    Reviews—Improved Version of the New Testament . \ 5 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/33/