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leader , is this circumspection employed ? I will soon inform you . But , first , be assured that there is no falsehood in any one of the
allegations , and yet the whole tale is false , as it seems to be designed that the world should understand it . Ci Yon are a wise man , Sir ; if you do wrong , it is with a great
deal of consideration and discretion and caution . " What do you think , good Christians , is the fact ? This reading , tqv Qa ov , is supported by —some authorities , but is not
supported by—some copies of the original . There is a version or two in its favour And , I give you my word for it , —only one Greek copy / This is the way to write criticism , and to settle the lex t of the N . T . ! On such
grounds it is concluded that a reading has undoubtedly come from the hands of an apostle ! The reading here adopted is not in the xeeeived text . of Elzevir , and therefore is not noticed bv Griesbach by , banishment to his margin . But though this is I will venture to say , an instance of literary—what shall I call it?—without a parallel ,
it is not necessary to raise a loud cry against it . 1 would not say , Ego , huic testi , etiamsi jurato , qui tarn manifesto fumos vendit , me non crediturum esse confirmo . But then , the same mercy should
be shewn to the harmless forgers ^ if such they must be called , who could plead the respectable motive of zeal for the truth . Before I conclude , I must ask
Mr . Jones a question . What does he mean when he asserts that there is not " a passage in the N . T . with the exception , &c . that betrays the hand of fraud ?" To what N- T . does he refer ? To ± he Complutensian edition * vv to
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Stephens ' , or to Elzevir ' s , or to Griesbach ' s ? In "What b 66 fc doefc he find that Greek text which wos guarded with scrupulous accurady f
He cannot mean any particular MS . for M . SS . differ , and to no one has yet been accorded the pre-eminence of being accounted the Greek text . Perhaps he can put his finger on something that is
entitled to this honour . From his language one might be tempted to conclude that there was , all the while , a book called the Greek Text , if not printed from the beginning , yet indelibly written , bound , lettered , and gilt , that has
been transmitted , through all ages , to our happy times ; if not several such books scattered among va . rious nations , unless that Greek Text , if a single volume , should possess a sort of ubiquity tbat renders it familiar to any one that
may but wish to peruse it . Poor biblical critics have been ever obliged to make out a Greek Tex £ , as well as they could , out of va . rious sources that have been
preserved , and Griesbach is &U lowed to have been the most fcufecessful of tfyern . Bui , as a frtetM observed with great originality ,
as well might we speak of a head being in the marble antecedently to its formation , as of tbe previous existence of any Greek Text which is fashioned into form out of the
M . SS , Mr . Jones can perhaps explain himself . And lastly , I cannot help animadverting with severity on the abusive arrogance with which , at the conclusion , Mr . Jones speaks of dissipating A ^ ^ h _ ^ ^ h _^^^ t a ^ h _ ^ B
the rubbish , which Onesbacb bas heaped together under the appear * arice of learning . " The learned ^ Sir , J ustly appreciate the labours of Griesbach , a man whose shoes '
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Dr , Lloyd ' s Answer to Mr . Jom& . 43
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/43/
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