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9 P 0 l&mew *—jL ^ ae ^^ , mA ^ Z l ^^^ ciK ^ ^^ lesmnum .
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the received , text ^ Geiesbach was convinced riot so much by the agreement o £ it * * characteristic , readings with those of the Byzantine manuscripts as by tifyTfthtory of its formation , which he has sketched , with great fidelity ami care , in , the first section of his Prolegomena . Nor , in the adjustment of
his text , has &e " stepped out of trie Path trodden ' by . preceding critics /* Jjowyer , we have already perceived , went before him in the same road . So , in part ,, did Harwood : and it has been trodden by Mat thai and by Alter . * Dr . L- maintains , 31 , that had Griesbach " limited his observations to the various readings of another text , instead of the 13 yzantine , the rests It would have been very different . Let
us try , " says he , ** the experiment with the Alexandrine , which being in his £ Griesbach ' i ] judgment the roost ancient and valuable , we might have presumed would have been originally selected for this purpose . Now Griesbach affirms of the Alexandrine and of the Western edition , Symbol * Crit . Vol . I . lip , *>* neutrius recensionis codex
uHus-ad nos jjervenit , quin plurimis ioeis interpo latus sit . " He , accordingl y * declares , > n the next-sentence , " Nulli eniui codici tan turn def&mnus honoris , ut lectiones ejus quascunque probemus . " So judicious and upright was this incomparable editor ! He knew that a pure text could not be formed ituerely from a single class of manuscripts , l ^ et us attend however -to his Oxford Censor :
** The manuscript marked A [ the Alexandrine ] he [ Griesbach ] represents us belonging to the Alexandrine class in the Epistles of St . Paul , became out of ooc hundred and seventy deviations from the received text , it agrees one hundred and ten times with Origeti , and differs from him only sixty . Now let us turn tbe scale , an . d substitute a comparison founded upon it * * variations , not from the received text , but from the Alexandrine , or the quotations
of . Qr igen . Griesbach states that the mauoscript A differs both from Ori ^ en and frqiu the received text sixty times . He ul ^ Q informs us , that it differs from Origin ivl ^ ne , ' ' witen \ t Agrees with tbe received l&& 9 nifrtfv-sito tipjes . Adding therefor * th ^ se ntftODcrS together , we fMrrceire that thlj $ « viaticm * of A tfcOte Ottgm * « s > tiic i tr m + mmmm *
^ i __ -w .. — > - ^»^ y ^ w ^ t ^ ^ * Nov . Test , Griesb . Pref , suU ii > it .
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Alexako 4 *^ uc t ^ xt ^| kajioiuit to ^ «^ t of Jfcupdgtdt aj ^ jtft ^ - ^ t st . Wi ao . ' *? & £ lJ ]^ Liio 4 . e ^«^ ^ l > ttiat out of t % cse It ^ f ^ c » VPitk ^ fi < ^« l ^ iv ^ d or Bfaun ^ ia © > feU , m £ k& & ii&ft * tifom Orfgen , «^^ r times , M < fi ^< i | i ^ fr om ft oirfy sLt * f T ^ ltie coaclu * i ^» thrPeR ^ is uuavoifet ^ ^ a » d to * se&ir cfen »{> elfe 4 upon this catculatiou to class "the miuiuscript un < ier the Byi ^ tiiine text , -a » wic were upon % h ^ © tber calcidatioa uuder ih « AWxaudriive ; so that % diftni ^ ricaVly opposite result takes place . " 31 , 33 , 33 *
As the same cause produces the s ^ mc effect , I > r . Laurt » nce s argument is , here again , the resull of his mifea f >|> i ^ hension . He ertonebusiy iti ^ agilles that Grieshach was determined Solely by numerical calculations in * as signing th « MS . A to ** the Alexandrine ' class'iffk the Epistles of St . Paul . " B \\ t Ori * sbach uniformly kept in view the
internal quality of the readings : ? and % ii « judgment of the MS . before tf& was formed on a deliberate comparison ^ of it ' s structure and genius wijth them of manuscripts and versions of ttie same or a higher age . The true question therefore is , Does the Codex A agpve or not with the Byzantine edition ia the most important passages ? In a vast
number , and even in the majority , of instances , a conformity * may subsist between them ; while such , neverttie * less , may be the dissonance in theii * 0 Fe memorable readings as to shetviuebntestabf y that the editions afe trot 3 he and the same . * CWthiacleaTdistittt ^ tf ^ Ti ¦
— - ~ - - — — - ^^^ — - ^ ^^ — — ^^— ^ v - «^ r- " ^ q ^^ ^^ - ^^^ ^"" - ^^ r ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ - ^^^ ^^ ^ ~^^ ^ k ^» the Rcmarker has been uhmihdfuL Nor is it merely from the agreernefft of a MS . with Origen , that Griesbach ranks it under the Aiexapndrhie teidt .-f These remarks apply with equal or greater force to I > r . L / s observations on the learned editor ' s arrangement of the liphrem inanuscript * 34 . The
principle of classification M can" then ** only lead-to a fallacious conclusion " when we forget that Griesbach weighed his readings , arid considered their excellence rather thau their timtdscr . His ovln language hi Symfe'Crit . Vol . II . 135 , far from ajiewm ^ that he was " not perfectly- satisned" with bis manner of computation , iUu ^ trattss his iilf
V—— . l . ^ . t .. ,,, r ,,,., f ^ u i cK -i | .. » n , U , nM . . t » . . » ?» Stse ^ ia ; pMrticmltxn . B ^ mkht 4 £ r& . ¥ wL II . £ fc 4-- — - * 4 i «* ft tb ^ TM ^ !»»' 3 pe ^ pcm « ii « 4 f stated and iully ^ x ^ iApli 6 « 4 < ^ t Syiubol . XIrit . U ^( L _ Xkua > tofi ^ io lafi . G ^ tjbach fitpv ^ ^ w ^^ w !« :-tifmf ^ ^^ i t .. a , . jH ^/|| tf £ L |^ M «** W ^ po ^ nwd . ^ , Mu >» % w ^^ i ^/^ im ^ An
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1817, page 240, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2463/page/48/
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