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I $ 9 & On ike Alexandrine M . S .
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Without one word of preface , with bo other information respecting the editkm than that which is afforded in the title-page , *« curft Leusdemi et Grte&bachii , " it is very conceivable , that many would flatter themselves with the idea that they would be able to examine the amount of the statements which the odious Unitarians are aendinfir thrnuffiiotif ih *>
^^^ ^^^ ^ H ™* ^^ " ^ ^^ P"PP" ^ ^ " ^^^™ ^^ P » PPV ^^ v ^^^^™^ ^^ F ^ P ^ VP ^^ _ V _ Pi ^^ B *^^^^^ PP ^^^ ^^^ ^ PPP ™^ ^^ P" ^ P > Pfl ^^^ K V ^ pV ^ PP * ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ P 9 ^ PP" ^ PP * ^ PPF ^ P ^ pp ^ island : ^ and what think you , Mr . Editor , would be the disdainful feelings , even of the ingenuous youth , who , upon referring to 1 John v . 7 , finds the passageof the three heavenly witnesses , of whose spuriousness Unitarians are wont to fee ] so secure , staring him in the face even in the text formed bv that «« vaunted
authority , " Professor Griesbach himself ? And how would his feelings be excited against this presumptuous sect , when , upon a reference to Acts xx . 28 , and 1 Tim . iii . 16 , he finds the wpnted pTops of orthodoxy apparently unaffected by that artillery in which Unitarians had professed the securest confidence ? In short ,
Mr . Editor , ^ who can say to what fejfctent tlte enmity excited even in a single mind by this manoeuvre of Messrs . Duncans , might proceed in confirming the minds of those mho . ware already prejudiced , and In stifling the begkmingf ) of free inquiry in those whose prejudices had received the shock of education and knowledge ? It so happens , Sir , that in one instance ,
which has come under the writer ' s notice ^ a copy of D&Bca&s' ** Griesbach " was purchased by a student who possessed Griesbacb ' s own edition already , tot who was induced to buy so neatly printed and portable a copy of the text merely ,, awad who was happily led in the course of reading with a friend , to detect some of those
discrepancies wbioh have occasioned the present cotnmuuication . If the incident itself or the trifling investigation to which it has contributed on the writer ' s part , should at all tend to facilitate the spread of sound criticism and rational religious inquiry , your readers will be furnished with one of numerous proofs of every day ' s
occurnenee , in which great events are aeon to spring from littfle caused . GRIESBACBIANUS . P . 6 . Since writing the above , I have had the means of knowing that
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this Glasgow edition of Griesbach , contains the Greek Text of an edrtioH reprinted in the same press from a continental edition of Leusden ' s . This will supply the reason for the employment of Lteusden ' s name , though it also fu rnishes a striking proof of the ignorance of the printer , since he has , in the edition to which this paper refers , omitted the marks of the occurrence of the same word in his copy which were the only characteristics of Leusdeif s edition .
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Sir , July 4 , 1817 . OUR Correspondent , Igrtotus , in Ythe Repository for January , [ XII . S 2 , ] having quoted a passage fromWhiteloeke ' s Memorials , inwhich Mr . Patrick Young is mentioned , as " having in his baud an original Tecta
Bible of the Septuagint translation — very naturally subjoins this question : — 'f Can any of your readers sav what was a Tecta Bible ? " I am sorry that none of your readers have ventured to answer the question . It is certainly not undeserving of attention .
It has occurred to me , that the only answer to be given , is thia :- ~ That Tecta is a misprint , or a mistake of Whitelocke ' s , for Tecla , and that the Bible alluded to is the Alexandrine Manu&criut ; said to have been written by a lLady of the name of Theda ^ or , according to the spelling we sometimes meet with in works of Young ' s days , Tecla .
** I do not hear , " says Sir H . Beurchier to Archbishop tlsher , " of any books , brought by Sir Thorny Rowe , besides the ancient Greek BilWe , which was sent to his Majesty , by him , from Cyril ] , the old Patriarch , some time of Alexandria , but now of
Constantinople . It is that which went amongst them , by tradition , to be written by St . Tecla , the Martyr , and scholar of the Apostles / ' &c . &c . Dr . &rian Walton also , writing to the Archbishop , and mentkmg a scheme of Whelock's relating to the Polyglofct ,
that all the homogeneal languages should be published with one Latin Uranskrtion for them all , saye , " So fche Roman L / XX . with ^ ie Complutenee and that of Tecltfs , and -our Latin translation /'^ cc . U ^ her himself , in a latter to L . nd . Cappelluis , describes this M . S . in a similar mannner : " Codicem
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/16/
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