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    Now since ail these things are so , I cannot help preferring ytvpiov to all tbe other readings . ( 1 . ) The most ancient copies / copies proceedingfrom different families ; the most excellent copies , and such in

    as seldom or never aj ^ ree any reading without producing the approbation of the most skilful critics ; the copies which merit these various characters read xvpio $ . See , for example , Acts ii . 13 . 17 . iii . . &c &c « ( 2 . ) The ancient Versions , whether made from

    the Alexandrian or Western recension , confirm the same reading . And ( 3 . ) the fathers , in sufficient number , and of sufficient antiquity , both Greek and Latin , concur . In the whole of the Acts of

    the Apostles I have followed the same witnesses as in this place support xvpov i if they were found to agree in their testimony . Wherefore , I should not have been consistent with myself , if , while rely-, ing on their authority , I had determined otherwise than I have

    done . But it may be objected , 1 st , that xupiov . crept in from the version of the Seventy , in which

    XVpiQV before Seoy , if ztpiou be the insertion , which I deny . Had they been puzzled by the attribution of blood to the Almighty , how was it possible that they should have gone to magnify the difficulty , by the introduction of xvptov *«* such a conjunction with ^ sqv increases the force of the epithet a thousand fold . But , on the supposition that they Whodoxizrcf , some would substitute

    ^ £ , at first , perhaps , as a gloss , for ZVpt Of , and at length as a part of the tot « , and some would add it to xv pug * Uh the copulative * till the whole variation was completed . If $ eO £ had been w * mding of the autograph , th « present variety cannot be accounted far on ™ y rationa ^ principle .

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    sx . K \ rjortcc rov xvpiou very ottea occurs , whence this expression was

    fimiliar to the book-writers ; and , while they were careless what they were doing , dropped from th ^ ir pen . I answer : Bsov more probably crept in , either from a parallel place-, 1 Pet . v . 2 ,

    TToif&ccvolte ro ev vpiv tfoifjcviov too Qsov E 7 n < rKOTtovvre $ i h . r . A ., or from the epistles of Paul , in which sKytXycria rov Qsov , the church of God , occurs eleven times , £ > oi . \ r < n o ( , rov

    Xpto-rov , the church of Christy but once only , and anxA ^ a-ja too nvpu 0 V y the church of the ^ Lord , not once . The book-makers , therefore , who copied the M . SS . of the N . T ., catched up a form of

    expression exceedingly familiar to them , both from their own read- * ing and from the public recitation of it . 52 ndly , in a speech delivered by Paul , that reading appears to be worthy of preference , which

    is more agreeable to the apostle ' s manner of speaking in other places , and that is , as , we have seen , EKViXr ^ a-iarov Qzqo , the church of God . J answer : the

    substance of this speech was notcora # mitted to writing by Paul himself , but by Luke , who is accustomed to employ £ K > t \ 7 )< riot 9 the church , simply , without any addition . There i » no propriety , therefore , in appealing to the style of Paul in this question . Nay , in this very speech , the Father is always so distinguished from the Son ,

    that the former is invariably called feog , God , and the latter xvpiOf , Lord ; v . 19 , 21 , 24 , 25 , 27 , 32 , 35 . The same distinction ought , therefore , tq be observed in v . 28 . 3 rdly . The more unusual , difficult , lw&rsj > , aiul apparently false

    reading , of which description is that which ascribes ai ^ ct , blood .

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    ^ roHs ln t ion of Gricsbach ' s Note on Acts xx . 28 « t >( J 7

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/43/