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* lebted to it for their acknowledg-/ jsyf—f * ^ J r- ... *• ¦ ¦ ¦ - ; I i- - ; * ¦>•; . - ¦> ¦ . -- . . t C < £ f > ¦ ed superiority in this department of tfieology . Our author ' s attention > vas not confined to manuscripts of the New Testament , but , when he found none of this
description in a library , he examined copies of the LXX , or of any other Greek authors which it chanced to contain . He spent the first part of the year 17 & 9 in visiting the principal universities in the north-west and
south-west of Germany . He thence past into Holland , and afWr a short stay there , crossed over into England , and reached London in September of the same year . While here , he visited the British Museum every day . He
next proceeded to Oxford , ivhere he spent two months , ex ^ feing the treasures of the BodleijSpand priade # , short excursion to Cambridge . In June , 3 770 , he left England for France , and occupied hijnsejf , during three montns ,
at ' J ? $ risj m examining the valuable collection in tke Royal library , in that of the Abbaye St . Germain , and several others . He particularly examined the wellknown Codex rescriptus Ephrem , ( C" of his catalogue , ) and has occasionally corrected Wetstein ' s
account of its readings . Fragments only of it remain , and of the pages which have not perished a great part is illegible . It can only be read in clear weather , and ? U that part of the day when the
light ? s strongest , namely about noon . The original reading pf this manuscript in 1 Tim . Hi . 16 , has been much disputed . Wetstein represents it as having OS . Dr . Less , who examined the manuscript after him , controverted ki « statement : but Gxie * bach
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sides with Wetstein , ancj , in hi Symbols Criticae , and the preface to the second volume of his first edition of the Greek Testamwitj has supported his opinion by collateral authorities . Pie also
collated nearly the whole of Stephens' manuscript t ] ( L ) , a copy of the gospels , not of very higfi antiquity , but containing in general a very good text . As he found that Wetstcin ' s extracts from it
were both inaccurate and inconjpleto , he has given his own cdllation at full length in the Symbdftse Griticae . It may be supposed that among the manuscripts in the Rdyal library he would p&y particular attenti < fn to those which the learned have considered as
having been used by R . Stephens : he was convinced that the greater part of them were actually ^ preserved there . . This question hajf since been discussed , for the last time , by Mr . Porson and Mr , Marshy in the controversy which Archdeacon Travis , unhappil y for his own credit , provoked , - ^ , l On Griesbach ' s returnxo H ^ lle , he delivered and published t » Dissertation , De Codicibus Evangeliorum Origenianis , which procured him the liberty of * delivering prelections in the university . This work contains the first
developement of his system of cri ticism , lie almost immediately began to deliver , first exegetic ^ l and then critical , lectures on the New Tcstainent . Being appointed
in the beginning of the year 1773 professor extraordinary of' theology , he added prelections on , hermeneuticsj on Christian antiquities , find on the history of sects ,
ancient and modern , in pursuing which he stated and discussed tlj # peculiar tenets of each * The tim *
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J ^ e tph of tfe Life of Dr . Jvlin James Griednxcfa A
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/3/
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