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Michaelis , Dr . Marsh renders ample justice to the critical faith - fulness of the Remonstrant Professor , who alone J' he says , " contributed more to advance the
cr iticism of to £ Greek Testament than all who-badgone before him . " This Lecture , which brings us down to the year 1763 , concludes with noticing the edition by Bowyer , the learned printer .
Our author ' s eighth Lecture is principally occupied with an account of the labours of Griesbach . The signal merit of this very diligent and learned editor
Dr . Marsh appreciates with the nicest accuracy and represents in a most interesting manner . He explains the the threefold classi - fication of MSS of the Greek
Testament , which forms the basis of the Critical system of Griesbaeh : nor will any student conceive that the Margaret Professor
is too diffuse on a topic so curious and important . The whole Lecture indeed should be repeatedly read by every man who aims at being an accomplished theolo ^
gmn . The ninth contains an enumera - tion of the writers who have ili ' lust-rated the criticism ^ of the
Greek Testament , according to its several departments : and , in the . introduction to this Lecture , Dr * M&rsh points out the difference between BibUcal criticism
andBiblical interpretation , and shews in what manner the able critic in tjie scriptures may , as such ; establish thteir authenticity One of his illustrations is furnished
by Matt , xxviii . 19 , & passage the genuineness of which is indisputable ; thrcrogh , we think , it would , note te ^ an- impfejuiiiced
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reader teach the doctrine of the trinity , which , however , may poS sibly be seen there , by a person already believing in this tenet . The two first chapters of Matthew in which the Margaret Professor also instances , are found , unques . tionably , in the earliest MSS that are extant . And in like manner , the celebrated paragraph in Josephus concerning Jesus Christ , has no want of external
evidence . There are few scholars , nevertheless , who do not reject it , on account of numerous internal improbabilities : and had the introductory chapters of Matthew and Luke made parts of a classical author , editors would perhaps have affixed Jo them the mark of
suspicion and uncertainty . Among the general and elementary treatises on the criticism of the Greek Testament , the Professor recommends Dr . Gerard ' s Institutes of Biblical Criticism : and , under different heads . he
notices with approbation various works , chiefly by foreign theologians . The subject of the tenth Lecture , is the criticism of the Hebrew
Bible , Dr . Marsh considers first the causes which have produced variations in the Hebrew MSS , and then the remedies which have been employed to correct them . He states the various
readings to have arisen , partly from accidental , partly from designed , alterations . Under the former , he reckons the casual omission- addition , exchange or
transposition of tetters , syll ables and words ^ which no transcriber , however careful , can wholly avoid , the mistakes tol > ich likeness ot sound occasionsj when a copy ** writes as another dictates , an
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296 Review . —Marsh ' s Course of Lectures * — Part II
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/40/
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