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    his knowledge of it appears too elaborately displayed , as though his acquisitions were recent , and as though the persons for whom lie immediately writes were in want of the information which he

    is capable of supplying ; and frequently he provokes a smile by his quaint and learned terms . Rut he has , evidentl y * taken pains to gain and communicate a correct acquaintance with the sources of biblical criticism . To his

    catalogue of eminent classical scholars , in p . 28 , I cannot agree that the author of * The Doctrine of the Greek Article' should be added . I am far from being satisfied that Dr . Middleton ' s labours have materially contributed to elucidate the construction of the N . T .

    whatever services of this sort they may have called forth on the part of his opponents . Though a revision of the R » T . ia not likely soon to have the sanction of public authority , yet , in the mean time , those aids towards it which

    have been afforded by individuals or societies , should not be de « spised . And I am much mistaken , if the reviewer , were he engaged in making such a revision , would not choose to have the I . V . open on his

    table-With the manner in which he answers the question , * Whether that scriptural text which is the ba » sis of the English and of most other nioderri established versions , is so perfect as to forbid all endeavours to render it more exact and

    faithful ? I am highly satisfied . He has particularly succeeded in placing in a perspicuous and Mitiiliar light , first , " the nature arid operation ot * he causes which have injured the text of the N . T . and then , the proper methods of effecting its re *

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    storatiorr or amendment . The propositions , too , which he l&ys down , as the result of this disquisition , are clear , judicious and important . In his account of the text which forms ihe basis of the I . V . he

    betows upon Griesbach that tri * bute of warnn approbation which he has long deserved from the votaries and patrons of biblical learning * A selection , moreover , is presented of the variations between this excellent scholar ' s edi

    tion of the N . T . and the received text . To a very large proportion of the readers of the Et'& . such a

    catalogue , I am persuaded ^ must have been a new and unexpected

    sight . The reviewer hrmself supposes that they will be surprised at the number of words and clauses rejected as spurious ; and , therefore , assures them , that u these rejections are made upon clear

    evidence . He had previously expressed his confidence , that * ' every competent person , and especially of those who "sustain the responsible office of interpreters of the revealed will of God ,

    will ascend to the proper sources , and investigate that evidenfce for himself . " A man who can titter this

    sentiment , so worthy of a Protestant , must , I am sure , bef mortified to

    compttent to •* ascend to the proper fcource" of knowledge , in the case , and to * investigate the evi - dence for himself . ' * That gentls *

    find , that the confidence which he thus avows , has , in one recent and memorable instance , been fallacious . He has strenuously and successfully maintained , that Kvpis is the true reading m Acts xx . 28 . But Dr . Collyer , it seems , is either not willing or not

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    Estimate of Strictures tin tlit Improved Version . —Letter 3 . 28 S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/11/