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    JRe&gel ijad thrown out a hint re-, apecting the possibility of reduce ingiftahuscripts * to different classes * and referring tbect } to a few grand divisions ; but he appears to have

    been deterred from pursuing it , Jbjjr ah apprehension of the ridicule to which he should expose himself . Griesbach was convinced by all that he observed in the course of his critical travels , that

    ihese ^ authors were fundamentally right , and , upon what they had advanced , he erected a theory . which is now universally received . It will not be'foreign from the design of this paper to notice its principal features .

    * He discovered that , as early as the beginning of the third centtiry , there existed , two editions ( recen-, stones ) oT the sacred text . How this diversity arose , history does » ot inform . us but the distinction itself is clearly marked . Qne edition , which he calls the Alex-&ncirine % may be found in the

    quot ^ -tiofis . of -Origen ; the other , line Western , in those of Tertullian and \ Cyprian . From the combination of ^ kese two , together with ± he errors and variations which

    jiejeessarUy . arise in a * long series of transcriptions , sprung , in succeeding time r s , & third , the Byzantine . Our present manuscripts / exhibit jnpre or less of one or other qf these editions ; ( for they jare not to be found unmixed in any individual copy ;) a * n d are said to belong to She Alexandrine pp . Western , according to the proportions which they contain of . readings peculiar to these editions . If > s . easy to see how the knowledge of these facts should guide the critic . His business is # ot to strike a balance between ttuz , in * im&cri } j l * , citations , dXid

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    t'ersi ^ ns , which favour one of other of the readings of a doubtful passage , and to proclaim that genuine which has the majority . —? Fie must first endeavour to ascer- ^ tain what was the reading of the Alexandrine and what of the

    Western edition . The reading which he finds in a copy or copies which he knows to be decidedly of the Alexandrine ' cast , if it be

    confirmed by the citations of the fathers who used , and the versions which were made from , that edition , he concludes . to have really been extant in it at the time when

    our researches on this subject must commence , namely , the beginning of the third century . The same course is pursued in ascertaining the genuine reading of the Western edition . It is not

    impossible that in this classification of manuscripts , only two or three may be found on one side ^ and all the mass of copies on the other ; but if these two or three

    are independent testimonies , th $ y outweigh a hundred , who rcptfat u the reading from each other or from softie common authori ty ^ Having ; then ascertained , " as \ vt : lt

    as possible , what was the real reading of each edition , ( supposing them to disagree , ) the next inquiry of the critic is , which is more worthy of being followed .

    This must be solely decided by internal evidence . The general rules for the probabilities of tho genuineness of readings are known from the writings of Bengel and Wetstein . Griesbach adds some to them , derived from what he

    considers as the peculiar genius or each edition . The Western edition . preserves harsh , Hebraiz- * ing , and solecistic readings wlric'h offended - the" taste of the lettered

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    Sketch vf the Life of Dr . jo % n Jamts GrUtbath . J ^

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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/5/