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this valuable piece of criticism we extract in order to complete the argument . Ed . It is now time to consider the positive evidence brought-forward by the Bishop of St . David's , in favour of the verse , during his second period .
" There can hardly be a doubt , " observes the Bishop , " that the seventh verse was extant in Greek in the copies of Walafrid Strabo ; and none at all of its existence in the time of the writer of the Prologue to the ' Canonical Epistles / Walafrid Strabo , who lived
in the ninth century , wrote a comment on the verse and on the Prologue to the Epistles . He could not , therefore , be ignorant either of the defects , which the author of the Prologue imputes to the Latin copies of his day , or of the integrity of the Greek , as asserted by him ; and he directs his readers to correct the errors of the
Latin by the Greek . " These observations on the testimo ny of Walafrid Strabo are founded we believe , on a statement of Arch
deacon I ravis , in his letters to Mr . Gibbon ; to which statement we must request our readers' attention . The subject is curious , and we have hopes of throwing some light upon it .
" The Glossa Ordinaria , " says the Archdeacon , " the work of Ifalafrid Strabo 9 was composed in the ninth century . This performance has been distinguished by the highest approbation of the learned , in every age since its appearance in the world . Even M . Simon confesses that no comment on
the Scriptures is of ' equal ' authority ivith this exposition . In this work the text in question is not only found in the Kpistle of St . John ^ but is commented upon , in the notes , with admirable force and perspicuity .
In his preface to this valuable ( 'Oiimu . ntiiry , Walafrid Strabo lays down the following rules , as means i i whereb y to discover and correct any errors that might subsist in the trans cnpts of hi 8 times , either of the Old nr ( of the New Testament . ' Nota ,
iuod ubicunque in libris Veteris Testainenti mendositas reperitur , recurr ^ nduin c ; s t ad volumina Ilebnieorum ; quia Vetus Testamentum primo in nn ^ ua Haebraica scriptum est . Si vero in libris Novi Testamenti , revertenuum ( 1 . recurrendum ) est ad volumina
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Graecorum ; quia Novum Testamen ? - tum primo in lingua Grtseca scriptum est , praeter Evangelium Matthaei , et Epistolam Pauli ad Hebrceos .
" If , Sir , it shall be allowed that this celebrated Commentator followed , in his own practice , the rules which he has thus prescribed to others , ( which will hardly be doubted , ) the Greek MSS . which directed him to
insert this verse in his text and commentary must , in all probability , have been more ancient than any now known to exist . lie nourished about A . D . 840 . Some , at least , of the Greek
MSS . which were used by him , cannot well be supposed to have been less than 300 or 400 years old ; the latter of which dates carries them up to A . D . 440 . But the most ancient
Greek MS . which is now known to exist , is the Alexandrian ; for which , however , Wetstein , who seems to have considered the question with great attention , claims no higher an antiquity than the close of the fifth century , or about A . D . 490 . If this mode of
reasoning , then , be not ( and it seems that it is not ) fallacious , the text and the commentary of Walafrid Strabo stand upon the foundation of Greek MSS . which are more ancient , in point of time , and therefore which ought to be more respected in point of testimony , than any possessed by the present a # c . "—Letters to Gibbon , pp . 21—24 , Ed . 2 d . Thus far the Archdeacon : secure , as usual , in his premises , and intrepid in his conclusions . Mr . Porson has
shewn , by a pretty copious induction of particulars , that the positions of this zealous advocate are not always to be trusted without examination ; and we have now before us an instance which the Professor might have added to his list . It is well known to the
lv'arned in these matters , and may easily be ascertained by those who will take the trouble to inquire , that the title of Walafrid Strabo to be considered as the author of the Glossa Ordinaria is , to use Mr . Porson ' s phrase , " exceedingly questionable ;" and that still more " questionable" is
bis right to the Commentary on the Prologue to the < c Canonical Epistles . " Our present intention , however , is to prove that Walafrid Strabo certainly was not the author of the sentence quoted in the preceding state-
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Quarterly Review on Bishop of St . David ' s Vindication of 1 John v . 7 . 33 ©
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/15/
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