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J \ ovum Testamcniinn Grace Griesbach . 239
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lii . 20 . xxi ) being an addition to the text , should have been printed with small type . iy . 8 . cxr / iog , OL-yio $ , ayio $ ~ ] ctyiog is repeated ^ n i ne times in B . y , *> 9 , &c . i . c . in a majority of the copies . What mysteries may not lurk in this three times three !
xi . 2 . stivbs-A In the first edition Griesbach inadvertently quoted the MSS . 29 and 30 , as reading svcvOsvj upon which mistake a brother editor thus mildly animadverts : Codex 30 est GuelpherbytamiSj seu meus x . 1 ) g codice ergo 30 mentitur . " Matthai , The error is corrected in the present edition .
xu . 10 . KOLTYjy&g ] 1 his singular reading was taken into the text on the sole authority of the Alexandrine MS , in the room of narvtfocoS ) and no additional evidence appears in this edition . The common reading is not even honoured with u haud spernen * da / ' Kecrrjyuug was preferred by Wetstein on the ground of its being a word of such a kind as the Jews were wont to make out of a pure Greek word , like D ^ piD for itc /^ oL K \ rfto $ .
xiii . 8 . tov £ < r < pay [ js £ vov dito y . OL ? oLfio \ r $ Kogfjbov ~ \ In the present edition the comma is placed after scrcpayf / jsvov . xiy . 6 . Ka . drjfjL £ vov $ is taken into the text , in the room of KaroiKOvvrag . It is not necessarily a Hebraism . See Schleusner , xafyuai .
xv . 3 . sbv ' jjv is retained in the text ) and ctyicvv rejected . xvi . l 6 \ a ^^ y ^ o W ] y ^ ays-S juy ' is the reading of several copies , and is marked us u haud i > pernenda /'
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xviii . 2 . ev kt ^ vocc ( p yjvr . is retained in the texty and sv -ieyyi thrown outT . We have noticed a small paFt only of the variations of the second from the first edition , in this book , because the rest are trilling differences , changes of orthography , tcanspositions r &c . which can be interesting to those only who are initiated into the-greater mysteries of the science of criticism . ¦ #
/ In comparing the variations of the text in thisedition , with those of the authorities , we have perpetually felt the want of some such work as the Symbolae Criti-Cdd ) or the 8 th chapter of JVlichaelis' Introduction , from which we might learn the age , character and value of ihe newly collated MSS . At present , all that we
possess is a general and often uncertain date , assigned to them in the catalogue . Of the purity of the text which they exhibit , of their affinity to the Alexandrine or Western editions , and other circumstances of high importance for determining their rank .
we know nothing . The student ^ if he be not content to acquiesce in the editor ' s decision , must acquire this knowledge for himself by long and laborious investi gation , and even then must determine the value of the copy from the assumed value of its readings .
o We mention this as an inconvenience which we could wish to see remedied , not as a defect of Giiesbach ' s work . In the preface , pp . viii , ix , he mentions , very cursorily , the copies to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/45/
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