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to * Griesbach's textf , in any degree wises From their theological pr-e- ' possessions , we most cheerfully refer them , to the first and third
numbers of the Eclectic Review for the present year ; where * they will find a masterly , view of the grounds for departing from the r-eceived t £ xfc , and' from the authorized Version of the N . T . One sentence will show the opini - on of the critic :
** We hazard nothing in saying , that the vqherable professor ( Grfesbach ) has atchieved that honourable and necessary work , which has been for ages wanted , df liberating the sacred text of the N . T . from unauthorized intrusions and he
ailtejudons ; ^ nd that has exhibited ; it in a state so nearly approaching to its original and native fcrm ^ as to exclude all probable expectation of any material improvement from future collations and critical labours ,. **
In all points then , where the ; I * V . accords with Griesbi&eh ' £ text ^ it is unnecessary for us to , discuss the readings adopted by ) the editors : ^ we may regard it as * an established canon , that Gries ** bach ' s text should be the
standard text ; and we certainly consider the editors of the -I . V . as requiring up justification , but as deserving our warm approbati on ^ in so . far as . they have followed
m As critical conjecture is at best a desperate remedy , and the sources . from . which the genuine readings of the Greek Testament ! iriay be drawn are so numerous , th £ disease must be very grievous * where a- medicine of thfa natiire can be justly ajj * plied « In a commentary ^ or an introduction ,- amendments of this kind may be proposed , but they ^ should never-be-admitted into thct text of the-Gre ^ fcTestani ^ nt itselfl Tfie alterations which have been ma < te by Griesbach arc clear and decisive ; they are founded on authorities , wHi 6 h are ' not to be rejected . But as soon as we admit a reading that is found in no ancient manuscript , in nt > ancient father , and In no ancient version , we rely merely . oa tht-ojxiftkbn of the . pmojjfcsery who , though possessed of the most profound learnings an 4 endued with the < gjr ^ ajtest inge / iuit /^ is not only exposed to the danger of mistaking , the meaning . o £ a , passage , and of amending therefore where no ar # en < $ ftlent is necessary , but in the corrections themselves may be guided ratfaet by a lively , imagination , than a splid J ^ d ^ me nt , or what renders them still more precarious ; may * be influenced by polemical as well as critical motives , which it is songLetinaeai dijSicuJfci to distirtgui ^ and with th $ honest intention of restoring what he supposes , the genuine tex ^ r . eGomn » end such readings as favour his own party . " Marsh ib his edition of Michaelis . vqL ii . P « 8 j ^
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his .. text * Our atfeefitibii will thzrn * * fore be directed Uo ^ the prinaipal ctepaftti 4 re& from it , arfter w ^ h ^ vei oflfered one or two inttfdfluctorw
coiiside ^ rauoiis . In th ^ Fiitrodiacti op ( Sect . v . 4 i )» \ Vg find ^ soine just remarks on the * su-bjefcfc of critical coitj&ctiwe , as < a meaiis of correcting therR .-T ? ,-Somewhat : higher sroutid ^ - how *
ever should have been ^ ken ; forJ critical ; conjecture ii ^ tile sti-ict sense of the term ( importiitgc the absence of all historical evidenee ^ ought iii out opinion in no- instance to be admitted in corrects
ing the text *^; and we cannot ? ai * low that there is no ' re ^ son why critical conjecture siloed be entirely excluded fro in- the N . T . any more than from the wofk& of any o ^ her ancient auth ^ " seeing
that we possess means of rectifying ^ the text of the N . T . which we have-not , in any nearl y * equal degree , of rectifying the text of attyotfret ancient work , aad' thaG correctness respecting the laiteu cate * never be considered as of < near ~
ly equ ^ l importance v th correc t ^ ness ' a 9 tb' the former . — B \ it wha 1 j we ^ nost wisli on this point ' is ^ thaft the editors had informed uis , wha ^ they considOTed n ^ critieal conjee-
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7 $ 4 # Review . ^ Improved * Weteionsofi the Nem Tesftfmentl .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/34/
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