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    t Alexgundrines ^ and fpx which they &&ve substituted others ^ more jpearfy approaching the stajiffcajjrd of GreeJ * authors * Qn the otfeer j | fcaad , tlie Alexandrine jis free from , those arbitrary corrections ^ intended to remove difficulties in

    the interpretation or contradictions in the narrative , which we find in the Western . The testimony of the former , therefore , is suspicious , when given in favour of the more elegant reading—that of the latter , in favour of a

    reading which promises to relieve us from an embarrassment * * This is an imperfect sketch of the system of criticism whicfy is now adopted by tfre most

    distinguished ^ masters of the science . Our theological readers will do well to seek a more ample and f&tisfacto ? y statement of it ji | the Tarious works of Griesbach . The perusal of them will convince those who look on criticism with

    fear and suspicion , that it proc ^ ejis by rule— -that its rules are logical deductions from facts proved or reasonably presujned—and that nothing is rejected ^ from the text without much better ground thah ^ th ^ t pa-which , it fi ^ st acquired its character for genuineness .

    Those who despise the sqience as trivial , and its professors as drudges and plodders , will find , that , far from , resting x in minute researches ami -toilsome collatiops , it calls the great faculties of the human mind into varied and extensive

    exer . In the ,-ye ^ r ; 176 $ ,, our author was inyit « d to be

    ? Ckricshach observes , that , th « author of these correction * in the Western cd \ tioa seems to . have aoticip ^ ted , and endcavourffd to obviate , objections to th # kUtory of ^ U rteurrcquoa . whichiwrff beq ^ ^ ar ^^ j ^^ crii unbQti&rm vrtj . <

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    and after soipe hesitation cl ^ terw n ^ ned to remove thither ^ JS&bxm he , left > Halle , he inaxided Juliana F ^ iderica , daughter of Godfrey Schiiz , the sister of one of his

    colleagues , both at Halle and Jena . In the beginning of 177 $% he took the degree erf doctor of divinity at Jena 7 His academical prelections treated chiefly x > f ec «* clesiastical history ^ ^ nd fiie ^ expo *

    sition of the New Testament to * gether with those branches ^© f knQwledge which are immediately connected with it . Thinking that he perceived too . much of the scholastic air in the doctrinal lec ^

    tures of his colleagues , and to < £ little regard to the separation of that which is interesting to every reflecting Christian , from thafc which belongs solely-to the literary furniture of a teacher , he detex > mined to read prelections on ^ w > ^ pular doctrinal theologyy ai } d witi * this view drew up a iirief xpanual ^ which was at first confined in its

    circulation to his q \ yn pupik , bi ^ t was afterwards given to the public in an improved form * We are told , that from the year

    1780 his time . was-very jnuch occupied with the various aoademi-, cal functions ] wjiich he was calle 4 on to discharge , and same of which he retained , from peculiar circumstances , longer than the ordinary period * The detail of them would not interest our-readers •^ we mention the fact in ** efe reu c * to the tardiness with which some of his works have made their ap *

    peaiance . Hit edition of the Greek Testa * , ment had found its way into Eng-

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    4 | Sketch $ f the , X 4 fe tf jDr . Jqim J $ m& GriesbacZ *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/6/