Chapter 26

THE NEW TESTAMENT TEXT AND ITS HISTORY--I. _The Manuscript Text_--1 and 2. General Remarks--3. Origin of Various Readings and their Classification--Substitutions, Insertions, Omissions--Arising from Inadvertence, or Unskilful Criticism--Wilful Falsifications cannot be imputed to the Copyists--4. Materials for Textual Criticism--General Results--5. Notice of some Manuscripts--The Vatican, Sinai, Alexandrine, Ephraem, Palimpsest, Dublin Palimpsest, Beza or Cambridge (Bilingual), Purple. Cursive Manuscripts--II. _The Printed Text_--6. Primary Editions and their Sources--Complutensian Polyglott, Erasmian, Stephens', Beza's, Elzevir Editions--7. Remarks on the Received Text--III. _Principles of Textual Criticism_--8. Its End--Sources of Evidence--Greek Manuscripts--Their varying Value--9. Ancient Versions and their Value--10. Citations of the Church Fathers--11. Canons of Criticism