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praftm&i ran ltiareamrgv vigour ;> wbmfr fwtfcy : nvaiv , - 'tut dven * surpasses , tfoe prflfgflesb iof rhe phita ^ logy exercised on ^ aajiusfenpts afid edit * tfri * a c > f the c hissical * a wtlvo rs <* £ C £ reeed afl&l Horn e .
• wiesbach ' s appr&ximntitiitj as his Censor styles" it > «« to thfe truth ; * afford *; - we ¦ think , " a sufficiently solid- basis for a darable -sii |> e ' rsmicstare "—^ -durable , as it regards his fame and the interests df Sacred Literature .
To the strength , and perhaps to the sjriendour , of the edihce future labourers , it is possible , may make addi * tiofis : but there is a very faint probability of it ' s being overthrown , to prepare the ground for any other . Before vre finish this article , our readers , we persuade ourselves , will see that even the most forcible and
best-directed attacks of Y ) r . Laurence cannot destroy the fabric of Griesbach ' s critical system : should we grant that some parts of it are unsound , the main building , is , nevertheless , inwlnerable . . < 3 an the Remarker with reason ctottbt whether : some of the most
aricieflt ^ rianuscn pts the books of the New- Testament are the basis of f ^ rtest > achV - system £ Doe s he seriously t > etieve that any of an earlier date exist ; or are likely to be disc&reted ? He canttot be so credulous
and sanguine . Stilly Griesbach was naturaH ^ and la udably desirous of p ?^< 5 urhfig access to a larger nufaber of written copies ; though -his ' mind-had long since attained a just degree of satisfaction in respect of the qualify t >( those with * vhich he had tnarfe
hCttteelf acquainted . There is no pret&toQ ® for iftti nrati rsg that his materials eoofd not enable' hkA to decide oh lh « * e ^ ral ctaftn&of th ^ Alexafidritte , the «* W * &&tetTt ani the Byzaiiiine ^ text : ¦ i rr- ' ; the f > resent advanced stage of Biblical Criticism the superiority of the two former has been admitted by the most competent Judges 9 * nor
kt Dtl JLatoerice hope that il will be triutaphatttly -contested . ^ Y ettyexed r abd idtricate /* he say * , ^* | is ^ the trite n / di / &&y prove ] it ' seecos liWtesirsry to trace atW " l itirsue it , if vre are * ffe { 5 ir <> ui 6 oTarrTving ' at certainty in our apfeCul ^ tii > nis . V ffi ; . •; .- . /^ .
. ^ ¦ JIh jk 1 76 , J 70 . and Mt \ r » W * L , ectnne 8 ^ : & 8 . 9 t : flK' p . 4 S .- Consiilt aiUo SymdaoL Ctitic . Voil . K pp . bl « Jt ! 6 »
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What , neventheles * , if absolute zax * taiuty is unattamable !* What , if ^ aA ^ approximation—a considerable apptToifci # * matioii—to the true way is all ftjfj which we can hope ? It is not thatu Oriesbach was solicitous to save himself the toil of investigation , but th&t frequently he had not the jwa ' rfcuscriiHfr .-which he wished to examine . il&
never deviated from the true way except where his path was so impeded ; that he could not pursue it ? this wasthe reason of his declaring , alw ? n queerere invitus smpe cogerer . Our proper inquiry , we repeat , is , what use has been made by Griesbach of the critical apparatus of which he was actually in possession ? -
To prove that the proximate relation of a manuscript to one text out of three ( 23 , 24 ) cannot be correctly represented as it ' s real affinity , I > r » L . argues in the following manner : " Griesbach asserts that the AU x % & » drine and Western texts have mauv
readings in common . On the -suppositicm therefore that a manuscript bad one hurtr dred readings common to both tejctiF , besides fifty more peculiar to the Alex ^ - andriue , he would immediately prohounc ^ it to be of the Alexandrine class . But
put the case , that the hundred readings * , which the Alexandrine text possessed iifr common with the Western ipere lostf ( and greater losses it is presumed have taken place , ) what would then prove Jiii conclusion ? He must upon his dwu
principles assign it to the Western classy because U . would now be distinguished < bjr ooe hundred peculiar readings of this class , and by ooly fifty of the others and t > viog thus arrar > ged > it would side with , tbie Western , even in * direct oppfysition to the AJexandrine , text , to which
it rea l )^ belonged * If such a result accrue from a deficiency in our knowledge q { & part of the t 6 xt , less surely cannot' be
attribuffibte to a deficiency in our Riiow - ledge of a . whple one ; and not of on « onl y * bat p £ two o ^ r even three . " ^ The Remarker , no doubt , flattefs himself that the above reasoning Is fatal to the system of the leameil Professor : but the meditated bld ^ r does not reach it ' s object . It would have become Dr . lA \ i-
renc « to refer specifically to Gri ^ abaoh ' 6 writings . This edrtor , be tHls us * ' ' ¦•««• asserts that the Ale ^ tidrib % and W < 28 * ern . texts have marty re ^ Q « ihgi iwcommati / 1 AH the ttxta-hiiV ^ ,
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lianewx ^^ c ^ enie 4 ® T ^ Wn&dkV" G ** e& Te * iament& 2 & ? 2
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/45/
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