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Critical Notice of Duncans Edition of Griesbach-Sir , Exeter ¦ , June 16 * A , 1817-YOU will oblige a constant reader and a sincere friend to the cause
which is so warmly supported by your useful Miscellany , by the insertion of the following critical notice of Duncaris Edition of Griesbach . Your readers , Mr . Editor , have often been favoured with just eulogiums upon the late celebrated Professor
Griesbach , whose life was devoted to the laborious and important pursuits of biblical criticism , but whose impartiality as an editor of the Greek Testament led him to adopt alterations by no means favourable to his own
orthodox opinions . The Improved Version has given those whose study of the Scriptures is confined to the English language , a correct idea of the importance of his learned and impartial labours to the defence of pure and primitive Christianity ; and numbers I have no doubt , who have never
seen a work of Professor Griesbach ' s , have lear » t to pay a just tribute of reverence and gratitude to his unwearied industry , profound learning and unsullied impartiality . Your
learned readers are probably at this time deliberating on the force of the objections lately made to the system according to which this eminent man conducted his labours , although few can have failed to observe the extreme
partiality and . inferior learning by which his opponents have been denoted . As long , however , as Griesbach retains that exalted rank , which he at present holds in the estimation of every true critic , ( and which he will continue to enjoy , till one
mightier than he shall be found to attack nis principles , ) it will be the sacred duty of every friend to the progress of religious truth , to guard his unsullied reputation , and to defend the conquests he has so decidedly won . An accurate copy of the text of his last edition , has not I believe
issued from a British press , although I have seen several which have disappointed the expectations Avhich they had raised . ? This is the case with an edition of the Greek Testa-
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ment , published in 12 mo . by Dakins , which professed to be formed from the edition of Mill and Griesbach * Now , Mr . Editor , it is well known Mill ' s text , underneath which was given the great bulk of various read * ings , was not a professed critical
edition , and differed very little from the Textus Receptus , being the third edition of Stephens : By the addition of Griesbach ' s name , one might reasonably suppose that h ' is text formed the basis of alterations , whereas upon inspection it is found that all the aid which Griesbach
could so richly furnish , is confined to a few insignificant readings which are placed in the margin . I cannot profess to have been much better gratified with the edition lately published by Dr . Valpy , especially considering the profession made by the Editor ,
and the time taken to prepare it for the press . I say nothing of the copious notes , nor of the nature of their selection , but object particularly to the authority assumed by the Editor over Professor Griesbach himself , in choosing to follow him in some places and to reject him in others , without
regard to critical evidence . I leave these , however , to present to you , Mr . Editor , the observations which have occurred to me , while examining the edition of the Greek Testament , published this year by A . and J . Duncan , of Glasgow , which has in its titlepage , ' " cur& Leusdenii et Criesbach ii . " I am not aware that the
text of Leusden ' s Greek Testament differs from the received text , and cannot therefore conceive why „ his name should have been presented in the title-page , unless to decoy the
unwary by the appearance of a double authority , or to reserve some latent excuse for a most unjust use of the name of Griesbach . In fact , Mr . Editor , on inspecting this edition , set off with the vaunted names of
Leusden and Griesbach , so far from finding it a valuable aid to the biblical scholar and a benefit to the sacred interests of religion , it is found to have been conducted with the grossest partiality to preconceived theological opinions , to bid defiance to any system of se-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/14/
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