Category: History - Religious

Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament

Complutensian Polyglot—Aldus—Erasmus—Collections of editions—Literature—First critical edition: Colinaeus—Stephen—Verse division—Beza—Polyglots: Antwerp: Paris: London—Elzevir—_Textus Receptus_—Critical attempts: Caryophilus: Courcelles: Saubert: Simon—Mill—Toinard—Bentley—Ger...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

Complutensian Polyglot—Aldus—Erasmus—Collections of editions—Literature—First critical edition: Colinaeus—Stephen—Verse division—Beza—Polyglots: Antwerp: Paris: London—Elzevir—_...

2. CHAPTER II.

Autographs—Manuscripts—Versions—Quotations—Number of Manuscripts—Uncial and Cursive Script—Age—Material—_Scriptio continua_— Accentuation—Stichometry—Palimpsests—Punctuation—Siz...

3. CHAPTER III.

Task and method—Internal criticism—Conjecture—Eclectic method—Genealogical method—External testimony—Lucian: his relation to the Peshitto—Hesychius: Codex B—Eusebius: Pamphilus:...

4. CHAPTER I.

[Transcriber’s Note: Throughout this book, superscripts and subscripts are used for various purposes. Superscripts after the titles of books indicate edition numbers. Superscrip...

5. CHAPTER II.

Even in the age of printing, and with all the security afforded by that invention, it is not always easy or even possible to exhibit or restore the literary productions of a gre...

6. xxiv. 47-53 wanting: has been in the University Library at Basel since

F. BOREELIANUS, written in the ninth century: so called as belonging at one time to a Dutchman named John Boreel: now in Utrecht: has many lacunæ, some of which have arisen sinc...

7. Part II. of _The Oxyrhynchus Papyri_ (1899, pp. 1-8) contains a fragment

of John’s Gospel (cc. i. and xx.) from a sheet of a papyrus codex written between 200 and 300 A.D. This is one of the earliest fragments that have been discovered of a papyrus _...

8. c. Colbertinus: in Paris, written in the twelfth century, but still

e. Palatinus: of the fourth or fifth century, written like a b f i j on purple with gold and silver letters: now in Vienna, with one leaf in Dublin.

9. i. Vindobonensis, of the seventh century, contains fragments of Luke and

j (z in _TiGr._). Saretianus or Sarzannensis, of the fifth century, contains 292 verses from John written on purple. The manuscript was discovered in 1872 in the Church of Sarez...

10. l. Rehdigeranus, in Breslau, purchased in Venice by Thomas von Rehdiger

11. m. Does not represent any particular manuscript and should properly be

omitted here. It indicates the _Liber de divinis scripturis sive Speculum_, a work mistakenly ascribed to Augustine, consisting of a collection of proof-passages (testimonia) fr...

12. mm. Of the tenth or eleventh century, from Marmoutiers, near Tours: in

san. At St. Gall, a fragment containing Matthew vi. 21-John xvii. 18, written by a scribe who says that he used two Latin and one Greek manuscripts. In the Epistles san. is a pa...

13. x. 17-23 is quoted, he inserts after πῶς ἢ τί λαλήσητε the clause

δοθήσεται γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τί λαλήσητε from Matt. x. 19, on the supposition that these words may have dropped out of the archetype of M P on account of the homoioteleut...

14. CHAPTER III.

There is no special theory of the textual criticism of the New Testament. The task and the method are the same for all literary productions. The task is to exhibit what the orig...

15. iii. 1, Lachmann would read πῶλοι δύσκολοι, Naber πλανοδιδάσκαλοι, while

Junius, de Hoop-Scheffer, and Bakhuyzen prefer πολυλάλοι on the ground that m^{64} has _nolite multiloqui esse_.[149] So far, therefore, this last is not pure conjecture. For κρ...

16. iii. 13: ipsum libri tui argumentum erubescendo convertatur in

minium): non miror si syllabas subtrahit, quum paginas totas plerumque subducet. Quis tam comesor mus Ponticus quam qui evangelia corrosit (_con. Marc._, i. 1): tuum apostoli co...

17. Chapter xxi., which the last two verses of the preceding chapter clearly

show to be an Appendix, is equally well attested by all the authorities, while the omission of xx. 31 by the first hand of G is just one of those unaccountable phenomena which m...

18. chapter xvi. belongs to this Ephesian epistle or only the first twenty

verses, while verses 21-23 belong to the original Epistle to the Romans. Improbable as this may appear at the first glance, it admits of an easy explanation. It may be due to th...

19. d. 533

I had intended to give in full those passages of the Fathers known to me in which mention is made of manuscripts prepared by themselves or others. In this way I hoped to make a...