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Art . I . —Novum Testamentum Grace . Textum ^ ad , fidem Codicum ^ f ^ ersionum & Patriim ^ recensuit , H lectonis varietatem adjecit ^ T > . Jo . Jac . Griesbach . Vol . iu Ed . 2 da . Halse . 1806 * Londini apud Payne et Mackinlay . 1807 *
It is now thirty years since the first edition of this work appeared , and the opinion of competent judges respecting its value , and
the learning , acuteness and fidelity of the author , has been more and more favourable , as it has been more extensively known . His labours have contributed in
an eminent degree , to the general amelioration of sacred criticism . By the accessible and commodious form in which they have appeared ,
they have diffused information among a large body of theological students . By laying open % ie scientific principles on which an edition of the New Testament is
founded , they have checked that licentiousness of conjecture and neglect of critical authority , which have perpetuated many difficulties , but can never remove
one . The first volume of a new and much improved edition was published in 1796 . And the public bus long anxiously waited for the appearance of the second . It is with , pain we observe that ill health has been the chief cause of
the delay . The Preface contains the following statement on this subject .
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< c Professor Birch ' a edition of the Gospels having been of singular advantage in the first volume , Griesbaci . delayed his preparation of the second , till it could enjoy the same advantage . But in consequence of a great fire at Copenhagen , the publication of Birch ' s second
volume appeared so distant , that he began his work without it , and had nearly finished printing the Acts , * when he re ceived intelligence that the vari < Tus readings of the Acts and . Epistles were fro be published without the text . About the end cf the year 1799 , this collection
came into his hands ; but when he had nearly finished the printing of the Epistles of Paul , his labours were interrupted by a severe illness , which for three years almost prevented his discharge of his public duties . He devoted the first return of health to the
continuation of his work , and expresses his gratitude to the goodness which has enabled him at length to finish it . '** Pref . pp . 1 , 2 . In giving an account of this most valuable work , we shall fii > t enumerate the additional
subsidia which give this edition a superiority over the first , and then proceed through all die books of the New Testament ; noting important variations from the text of the former edition ^ and remarkable readings now first pro duced , or confirmed by fresh au ;~ thorilies ; adding such observa - tions as may be neccssury to ljlusu
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* STILL PL IA I ' D TO PRAISE , YET NOT AFRAID TO JBLAMf . ' * fOPT *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/39/
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