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a ^ ktf&r ^ &f reading in cbmrnBrir : tfijfe o 1 j 4 erVa \ jon tioWs goocj on a comp ^ j £ pri / of thie best' ivith tTie most cat ? opted text ?*; and the fact is rather talten for granted than formally asserted by Griesbach . What Grieshja&tf particularly and distinctly wishes hii tenders to bear in mind , is that certain manuscripts are especially
remarkable for exhibiting readings charattfristlc of different texts , and that the business of the true critic is to discover , if possible , the class under which such manuscripts should really b £ arranged . The Remarker seems to ' coflrceive that Griesbach decided a point of this nature exclusively or chieflv bv numerical computation .
This * however was not the accomplished editor ' s principle or practice . " We * know it to have been his favourite maxim , Ponderandi , nan numerandi , txstcsf and he applied it to the readings o £ single manuscripts as well as to classes and families of manuscripts . He speaks not so much of the mass of readings as of those which , by their
n ^ aHO , mavk the age and country of the transcriber . The scholar of a . practised eye aieid judgment , the man wtooihas a taxi for these studies , disc » ftis tfrfi quality and the date of a ( Aden ? T&avtuscripius > and consequently kttows under what head it should be r ^ rlkiftd , from peculiarities which
perh&p $ are . Hot nnmenous , and which , assuredly , would not seize the xiotice of the ordinary reader . ** While the argument of Dr . L . rests on an unwarrantable assumption , it involves a case which is scarcely within the limits oi'
probability . Our Rennarker supposes that Gri ^ baeti is already persiKid ^ d of theimaginary MS- in question really le > - Idtigtng to * thet Alexandrine text . But wlrertcfe was this conclusion deduced ? Not so much , it may be , frWri any
numerical excess * of Alexandrine readings as from the characteristic gferiitis and a&pefct of the d # c * pnient . Granting , further , tfoat this loss had takfctf l * tace * , could Wot the cause of it b 6 ' ascertained ? ' In all teverits , jmssk-> ¦ . * ...
u , , „; ¦ ¦ ' - " -- . . . i ' - " i * . * -. ' ' ' ¦* ' ^> mtlok CtHte . Voi . I . 2 < J . " in Itfctkni ^ brts rrota&ifforitiri / s ei ehwtactetistici ^ &e , i' ) Ib . « 7 > << itt hsttio «« ; aliqfa ^ ^ ot ^ ktfk" Wm > , ^ 8 ^ " cujwsfftt eedecT ^ nipq ^ e / * . * iyMvw& ( tafrttt hf * dii *< et / eftyrtf j « 4 ir C ^ Or ^ lltSl C ^ t < ^* •¦• ' ¦ - - ¦ '< - > ft- ' ' - \» ' •<^ ^ i ^!
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IrM «?' catmtrt be ¦ h ? % } £ i ' iti ^ t ^^ rt } t ^^* toftitfs . Grie ^ hach , ^ ke t * M& metir , ' cotiId ert 4 y rea ^ dr * : fro ^ n 4 WhM ~ ft& * kn ^ w . And sihce l h 4 ^* ds d ^ ciderflyof opiniotr tha ^ - ^ feoth * tbe Alei ^ iidrrnir and the Western texts are of the first antiqtiily , tHfe sokittort ctf ^ Dh . L ; atK recce ' s pfolvieni is praeWtcaH ^ xrnim ^ . poftant . The three leading tesiitfs under which' the MSS . t > f the N . T .
may be arranged , have , we think , * been discovered : other texts n * ay exist ; but it is probable ? . that theV possess a near affinity to those wfiicn are enumerated by Grtesbacli . - His Knglish Censor , less envious and illiberal indeed than MaNhdi ^ - and still less conversant with Biblrcal
criticism , is fond of making suppo * sitions : to another which be proposes , 22 , 23 , we shall give an answer similar to the foregoing , " Were we to suppose the publication of six different editions of the same work , all from incidental causes frequently vary - ing with each other , and that a cpjpy hitfet
been taken from one of there ; but firottt which of them we arc ie ^ ii * mmt > should we , in ascertaining , to which edition th ^ copy belonged , think onr fnvestigsation perfect or satisfactory , it we sinipiy coxo * pared it with only one hnlf of the uunj ^> t'jr > neglecting altogether a coii ^ j ) ar | son wil ^ t the other half ? An 4 woul $ JJO ^ fc ' . pbc difficulty be considerably increased , if « yq .
found , that tiie copy to be compare ^ , ( as ^ is supposed to be the dase ia the PfW "^ ticular instance under contemplation }" was not t ^ ken from one of t f » , e six 4 b 54 ^ - tioiis immediately , but m ^ dJately , tliroii ^ n thd channel of otiiet ct ^ rics , itiiieh niid * for a Ibng 1 period been-- ' sfaicce&iveljr tratrs' ^ cribexl frdm each otiier ^ nud hud att&np&f : canfwsexi t » pettier the F ^ adi \* gs " < j £ -oftfe edition withiUiose ^ ofuinot ^ iwr . ? ' * ¦• * ^'
Siicft an frtVeitr ^ atiori , we ^ Hb ti 1 d say , hiight bfe in ? f hifeh ¦ ti £ gt ^ $ dt ( £ ! factory '" aithbu ^ h ft were riot pttfftcb : Witfi whitjustrce . l ^ WeW , ' or ^ hktr cahdbtrr , &&& > Dr . ' L " virtutfll ^ < itcvti& Gricsbach of' nSgfefo t * '' ] The aicu ^ tion ' Unfblirided : Tnoi ^ h' © rie ^ bach believed th'at' m ^ 6 V sr ^ eefhi ^ h ^
^ mi ght M exist ; still to tf ^ iilfl oot ^^^ the SS . ur WWteh ht b ^ 3 -itWepa under n ^ re ^ th air lli ifee . * ^ ut ii ? vtiet& be Vi& ' t 4 a&r ttsihle id ) tji ^ 'OTh ) crer . j ^« g ^ WJ ^ antiquity of these tex t ^ , fr ^ fhiotMtft ; siircir trrey afford m ^ t ^ riars Yor thAf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/46/
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