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conclusion , which in the present state of critical knowledge \ yilt , I wili venture to say , be regarded by we ! I-informed persons as not a little extraordinary . " So that I am clearly convinced , after examining the subject , that nothing which has been
advanced by the enemies of chnstian i iyP or its w « ell-iiieaniiig : friends , is sufficient to : shake our faith in the inspiration of the jtfezv Testamenty or the genuineness of any part of it * excypl it he a single verse . " If my wet I-meaning friend . is speaking of iijfe universal inspiration of the New Testament , he has himself shaken that doctrine as some will think sufficiently—if he means partial inspiration , he subjects himself to his own charge , ( p *
9 & . ) < or allowing only a part of the scriptures to be inspired , £ nd leaving it uncertain where that part is to be found - And I believe that if he will take the trouble of re-examining the subject , with the assistance of the learned , accurate and indefatigable Griesbach , he will be satisfied that more than one
sentence in the received text of the New Testament is liable to the suspicion of interpolation . It would indeed be truly miracir * lous if in a course of fifteen hundred years any existing ;
manuscripts of the New Testament should have been perfectly free Jrem error : and it would be still more extraordinary if these tinmutilated , uncorrupted manuscripts should by mere accident have come info the possession of Robert Stephens at Paris * Erasmus at Basle , and Beza at Geneva , to whose united
labours we are indebted for our present text , in which no improvement has been made by public authority fqr the la ? t two hundred and fifty years ^ though ten times the number of manuscripts have been since collated with the greatest care beyond what the ori g inal editors ever possessed . And yet my ' friend after examining the street maintains an unshaken faith in the integrity , not of ' the New Testament , for that is not the question ^ but of the received text * as exhibited in the editions of
Stephens , Erasmus and Beza , founded on the authority of about twenty manuscripts to which thev happened to have acces 3 3 most ot which are ot little repute , and were very cursorily collated by Henry Stephens > Uie son of Robert , a yo ^ th of eighteen . My friend observes , ( p . 119 . ) that " much has been said
concerning the interpolations and mistranslations of scripture , ^ He adds , that € < persons who have been disposed to lay great stress upon such declarations , and are themselves unacquainted with the original languages of the Old and New Testament , will perhaps be surprised when they are toW that there are not above three or four passages of this nature which can affect their dbc-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/32/
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