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263 Novum Testamentitm Grace Griesttach .
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ingenue professus ipse est ) elaboraverint . " Append , p . 25 . Jude , 4 . ? ov fj . ovov ozworyv ( 3 sov Vulg . text ) kxi v . vg toy r ^ x oe ? irjTovv Xci ( TT 0 v . ~] The Complutensian editors have been charged with a pious fraud in altering this reading to rov [ xovov Qsoy xcci
'SctrTTOTYjV , rov Kvgic-v r uojv I . X . against the voice of all the MSS . Their reading has , however , been found in two copies 42 and 57 . Griesbach , in his note on this passage , in his first edition , says , a Complutenses contra codices *"
although 42 ( or Seidelianus , ) had been previously quoted by Bengel , as containing their reading . Michaclis ( vol . ii . p . 3 , 65 . ) says that 57 ( orllaunicnsis Infrequently coincides with the Complutensian edition , in readings that are ratified by no other genuine MS .: according to Hensler , as quoted by him , in not fewer than forty instances * . Jude , < 25 . After kpoctos ncci B ^ ov cri oty the words ifor > tfowros tov ancvog are inserted in this edition .
APOCALYPSE . It is well known that the text of the Apocalypse is more impure in our common editions than that of any other boot , and that the difficulty of reforming it is greater . The low esteem in which it was
held in the early ages of the church , and the little interest felt in it by the bulk of Christians , caused it to be very seldom transcribed ; and at the revival of letters , copies containing It wore so rare , that Erasmus could only procure one
im-- t | m _ a - -, p | J—j . , ~* mm ^^< WMMHt * JMIdiaclLs , vol . ii . p . 440 .
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perfect MS . from which to prlrif his first editions ; nor were the Coniplutensian editors better fur , nished . The text of these
editions was consequently Tery incorrect ; indeed Erasmus translated the six last verses of tha book from the Vulgate , his copy being mutilated ; and reformed his Greek only in part when he obtained a complete MS . Stephens
had only two MSS . and they appear to haye been of little value , and imperfectly collated . Ben - gel , accordingly , found the t&t in so bad a state , that he was compelled to depart from his rule of not admitting any thing which had not previously appeared in some edition . Nor are the incorrectness and poverty of former editions the only sources of doubt and difficulty . The
character of the book prevents the application of the ordinary rules of criticism ; the harsh and Hebraizing sty ^ e , misleads , and though the copies arc few , their discordancies are numerous in an inverse ratio ; so that it has been observed that very few transcribers have been under the feav of the author ' s interdict , xxii . 18 . 19 . " Whosoever shall add to the wbrds of this book * ' ' &c .
For these reasons , it is not surprizing that Griesbach ' s inner margin is crowded with rejected and doubtful readings . iii . 8 , fjLixcocv ] The common reading is not intelligible . One Vatican J 1 S . reads pa ^ ay , another ov ^ lk ^ ocv ; both , apparently , arbitrary corrections .
* Bcnecl , sect . iii .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/44/
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