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Advantages of liie above discovery * - ** in how far Matthew may be said to have written in the Hebrew language —principal contents of Matthew—has Gospel intended fot the use of Jewish Christians—of the historical talent of the editor of the Gospel according to Matthew— -age of the Gospel according to Matthew—Justin ' s Memoirs of the
Apostles shewn to be an earlier , but more imperfect Gospel , approaching however , near to the catholic Gospel of Matthew in regard to its subject and contents . 2 . Of Mark . —Notices respecting Jain and his Gospel—his Gospel was not composed at Rome from oral communications had with Peter—nor can
it be proved that he actually wrote after the demise of Peter—or that he published his Gospel at two different times : —of its origin and authenticity —uncertainty respecting the place ana country for which it was originally
designed—its conclusion ascertained to be genuine . 3 . O £ Luke . —Accounts of Luke—Theophilus , for whom his Gospel was drawn up , probably lived in Italy—it is unknown where mid at what period
it was written—of its authenticity- — the sources of it—previous to the time in which Luke wrote , other attempts had been made to collect together the various imperfect sources or which he availed himself—for instance , in the Gospel of Marcion .
IV . Observations on the three first Evangelists collectively . Cause of the dearth of genuine accounts respecting the three first Gospels—age of the superscriptions ascribing the Gtospeis to them—of their
want of chronological order—ineffectual attempts made to harmonize them —early corruptions of their texts , owing to 1- Apocryphal Gospels . 2 . Alterations purposely made by heretics .
3 . Alterations purposely introduced by catholic teachers . 4 . Attempts at verbal criticisms . 5 . Modes of appointing the lessons for the church . tf . Alterations in reference to parallel passages 7 . Alterations of scholiasts . End of Contents of Vol . 1 .
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Mr . Bowrifigr on the Xifhenes' Polyglot MSS . 203
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Sir , Hackneyi March 29 , 1821 . HAVING been instrumental in the / circulation of a mis-state * ment originally , but certainly unintentionally , made by Michaelis , T beg you will allow me to correct it . That
mis-statement regarded the destruction of the MSS . at Alcaid , from which Ximenes' Polyglot was made . [ Mon . Renos . XIV . 596 , Note . ' ] Those MSS . never were employed , though the story has been frequently repeated , for the purpose of making rockets . The oldest ' catalogue which exists of the books at the Aicali
University is of the date of 1745 . There is a prologue to it complaining of damage done to other MSS . of less value , but no reference to any loss of these scriptural documents . In the middle of the last century a famous fire-work manufacturer ( called Torija ) lived at Alcala , but he was a man of letters , with whom the most eminent of the professors were accustomed to associate : —it is impossible he should have been instrumental in such an act
of barbarism . But what demonstrates the falsity of the supposition is , that Alvaro Gomez , who in the 16 th century published his work , ** De rebus gestis Cardinalis Francisci Ximenes de Cisneros , " there affirms that the number of Hebrew MSS . in the
University was only seven , and seven is the number that now remains . The period in which these MSS . are said to have been so indignantly treated was one when the library was under the judicious care of a man of
considerable eminence , and when the whole of the MSS ., amounting to 160 , were handsomely bound . Thefe are at Alcali , indeed , no Greek MSS . of the whole Bible ; but we are told by Gomez that Leo the Tenth lent td
Ximenes those he required from thfe Vatican , which were returned as soon as the Polyglot * ras completed . These were probably taken charge of by Demetrius the Greek , who wae sent
into Spain at this period by the Pope . It must not be forgotten that Ximenes * character was ofte of a strange affection for economy , of which every thing at Alcald bears proofs . That whicn he coukl borrow he would not buy
-His ambition , proud as it was , wes ministered to by his avarife as well fcs his vanity . JOHN BOWBING
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/11/
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