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tvhict he could redeem from his official engagements , he devote 4 to . his preparations for a pew edition of the Greek Testament . To publish an edition ^ in which all former editions should be
considered as of no authority , and the text be settled with regard to the ancient sources of evidence only , was a step which was likely to excite much opposition and obloquy . Even Bengel high a s * he stood in public estimation , could not venture to do it . Griesbach
determined , therefore , to proceed with caution ^ and with this view "began by publishing synoptical tables of the first three Evange - lists . Finding that no violent opposition was excited by the freedom with which he treated the
received text , he followed it up h y publishing the Gospel of John ; the reception of which still encouraged him to proceed . He therefore published the remaining part
of the New Testament , and reprinted his two former works in one volume , to correspond with it . r No editor , smce ' the time oi It . Stephens ., had undertaken to settle the text on critical
authority alone . Mill had found fault with the vulgar reading in many passages . Wetstein has marked in his margin the omissions , additions , arid changes , which he ' approved : Bengel has denoted the degrees of
authority of various readings by the letters a , / 3 , y , £ , &c . but he admitted nothing into his text whicji had not been placed there by some previous editor . In thus abstaining from correcting what thc * y acknowledged to be wrong ,
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these great men must surely hav % sacrificed their own sense of pro * priety to the spirit of their times . To Griesbach we owe it thai a more accurate text of the sacred books has come into circulation .
and ^ begins to be appealed to as the standard in discussions arising out of the language of Scripture , While interpolated clauses and spurious words stand upon the ( i vantage-ground" of the text , it
is in vain to brand them with . marks . But once fairly banished from the place which they l ^ ave usurped 5 there is very little dan * ger of their restoration * . Though Griesbach ' s method of
treating the text excited no vioy lent outcry of impiety and heresy t yet there were among his contem ^ por ^ es some who reviled , and somS who ridicule ^ , his system . There were , indeed , very few who had just notions on the subject or
sacred criticism . An opinion mmost universally prevailed , that the Greek manuscripts , nay evei } the oriental versions , had been corrupted from the Latin . Learned men contended blindly for the a | 2-r thority of some one individual copy which they made thei ^ standard . The affinities and ge-.
nealogy of manuscripts , circumstances go important in estimat e ing the value of their testimony , were unknown , - or not taken into the account . Griesbach ' s illustrious master , Semler , had been the first to op * , pose the prejudice against the
Latinizi ? ig manuscripts , though hp had been himself strongly infected with it by his study of Wetstein .
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Hr Sketch of the Life ffi Dr . Jrahn James Griesbactl
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• in this view , a cheap edition of Gricsbach * * texf and margin h ycry muck # o be wiahed , . ••*• ,
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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/4/
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