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    would authorize a larger statement , since tUe existing manuscripts are clearly attributable to deferent ages from the tepjthj ^ ptey to the # fteeath . IV . It is to be observed * that " Herodotus [ v ? as j quoted and [ or Y ] mentioned during a thousand years , from A . IX 1 I $ O to A . D , 150 J' " In the various readings , " it is here ingeniously remarked , that we have before oiir eyes a species of decay which time alone could produce" * We cannot re&in from annivine this observation , no less iust than beautiJW , to the results

    derived from the most eursory inspection of the Atexandri » e and Cambridge manuscripts © f the New Testament , whose fac-similes tie before us . Their ancient character determines their great antiquity , their Editor assigning to them , on separate grounds , the age of at least nine centuries prior ; to the act of printing * Now a comparison of these is sufficient to convince an unprejudiced mind that their discrepancies ^ nd differences could only have been occasioned by tjie lapse of centuries , so that calculating from the earliest , in * stead of the latest , period when these existing codices were mitten , ( and the Vatican is probably still more ancient , ) we are brought to a period close to

    Jthe apostolic age . The authors of the above period , who were certainly acquainted with the history < rf Herodotus , are « Eustathins , Archbishop of Thessalonica , who flourished in the latter part of the twelfth century ; ' Suidas , a learned By * - zantine monk , who flourished at the close of the eleventh century ; Photius * Patriarch of Constantinople , of the ninth century ; Stephen , of Byzantium , in the middle of the sixth century ; Marcellinus , the author of a Life of Thucydides , in the sixth century ; the historian Procopius , of the sixth cen <» 4 ury ; Stobceus , a century earlier ; the Emperor Julian [ in the fourth

    century ]; Hesychius , Longinus , and Diogenes Laertius , in the third ; and Athenmus , in the second century . The Jast name is by Mr . Taylor placed out of its true-order . V . «« Herodotus is mentioned and quoted , from A . D . 150 , to his owa times , " by Pausanias , " in the second century , by Lucian , of Samosata , in the second , by his conteroporary Hermogenes , by Aulus Gellius > ofihe age of M . Jlntcmimi& i byPlutarch , who died 140 . " " It is proved beyond a doubt , that the Greek text now extant is substantially the same as that read by

    Plurtarch in the time of Trajan ; " [ compare with this the statement of Bishop Marsh in reference to the Christian Scriptures : * " The second volume of Griesbach's Symbol ® Criticee contains all the quotations from the Greek Testament which are contained in the remaining Greek works of Clement &nd Origen , and they shew that the Greek manuscripts which were used by Clement and Origen no otherwise differed from the Greek manuscripts which have descended to the present age , / than as different copies of the same work ( before the invention of printing ) unavoidably vary in their

    readings ; " ] by Josephus , who was present at the siege of Jerusalem , A . D ,. 70 ; by his contemporary Quintilian ; by Strabo , co-eval with the Christian era ; by Dionysiiu , the countryman of Herodotus , who lived in the Augustan age ; by Diodorus , the Sicilian , a £ ew years his senior . He was known to Corhe * lius Mep 6 s i s highly commended J ? y Ctcero , f frequently / referred to by Pliny , followed by Scymmts , of Chios , cited as an tncample by \ Aristotie 9 % calumniated by Ctesias , " who leaves , however , the substance of his nar / atiye mqcoptra ^ icted , " and lastly , . the noble emulation qti ^ mtides w \ l

    t ' ¦»* tp . , t - - - -,,- , I J" I ' , 4 ** 1 . 1 ' . | , # > v Theol . Leot , H * f pe Oratore , lib . M . De Leg . h 53 . % lu his Rhetoric , Ui . . 9 . Poetic § 18 .

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    318 Review . — TqyWt Historical Proof .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/30/