The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

was directed to skip all that followed down to the words [Greek: kai mêketi hamartane] in ch. viii. 11: after which he found himself instructed to 'recommence' ([Greek: arxai])....

Another cause why, in very early times, the Text of the Gospels underwent serious depravation, was mistaken solicitude on the part of the ancient orthodox for the purity of the...

[We have now to consider the largest of all classes of corrupt variations from the genuine Text[258]--the omission of words and clauses and sentences,--a truly fertile province...

There results inevitably from the fourfold structure of the Gospel,--from the very fact that the story of Redemption is set forth in four narratives, three of which often ran pa...

The Corruptions of the Sacred Text which we have been hitherto considering, however diverse the causes from which they may have resulted, have yet all agreed in this: viz. that...

Sincerely regretting the necessity of parting with an expression with which one has been so long familiar, we cannot suffer the sentimental plea to weigh with us when the Truth...

We hear sometimes scholars complain, and with a certain show of reason, that it is discreditable to us as a Church not to have long since put forth by authority a revised Greek...

Corrupt readings have occasionally resulted from the ancient practice of writing Scripture in the uncial character, without accents, punctuation, or indeed any division of the t...

[It has been already shewn in the First Volume that the Art of Transcription on vellum did not reach perfection till after the lapse of many centuries in the life of the Church....

[It must not be imagined that all the causes of the depravation of the text of Holy Scripture were instinctive, and that mistakes arose solely because scribes were overcome by p...

§ 1. St. Luke xix. 41; ii. 40. § 2. St. John viii. 40; and i. 18. § 3. 1 Cor. xv. 47. § 4. St. John iii. 13. § 5. St. Luke ix. 54-56. pp. 211-231

The essential note of primitive antiquity at all events these fifteen words enjoy in perfection, being met with in all copies of the Peshitto:--and this is a far weightier consi...

of being permitted to announce a solemn fact--concerning Capernaum[29].--The newly-discovered ancient name of the Island of Malta, _Melitene_[30], (for which geographers are ind...

were leaving out something. These are therefore witnesses _for_,--not witnesses _against_,--the passage under discussion.--X being a Commentary on the Gospel as it was read in C...

One of the most prolific sources of Corrupt Readings, is Transposition, or the arbitrary inversion of the order of the sacred words,--generally in the subordinate clauses of a s...

There is one distinct class of evidence provided by Almighty God for the conservation of the deposit in its integrity[145], which calls for special notice in this place. The Lec...

No one who finds the syllable [Greek: OI] recurring six times over in about as many words,--e.g. [Greek: kai egeneto, hôs apêlthon ... OI angelOI, kai OI anthrôpOI OI pOImenes e...

There exist not a few corrupt Readings,--and they have imposed largely on many critics,--which, strange to relate, have arisen from nothing else but the proneness of words stand...

to his house in that same hour found the servant whole.' It does not improve the matter to find that Eusebius[350], besides the Harkleian and the Ethiopic versions, recognize th...

'Glosses,' properly so called, though they enjoy a conspicuous place in every enumeration like the present, are probably by no means so numerous as is commonly supposed. For cer...

the Passion,--also when thou readest the second Gospel of the Vigil of Good Friday,--stop here: skip verse 28: then go on at verse 29.' The inference from this is so obvious, th...

[It often happens that more causes than one are combined in the origin of the corruption in any one passage. In the following history of a blunder and of the fatal consequences...

But sometimes corruptions of this class are really perplexing. Thus [Symbol: Aleph] testifies to the existence of a short additional clause ([Greek: kai polloi êkolouthêsan autô...

Yet the class of Substitutions is a large one, if Modifications, as they well may be, are added to it[347]. It will be readily concluded that some substitutions are serious, som...

§ 1. Not so numerous as has been supposed--St. Matt. xiii. 36--St. Mark vii. 3. § 2. St. Luke ix. 23. § 3. St. John vi. 15; xiii. 24; xx. 18--St. Matt. xxiv. 31. § 4. St. John x...

§ 1. Omissions a class of their own--Exemplified from the Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark--Omission the besetting fault of transcribers. § 2. The _onus probandi_ rests upon omitt...

§ 1. St. John iv. 35-36. § 2. St. Luke xv. 17--St. John v. 44. § 3. Acts xxvii. 14--St. John iv. 15--St. Luke xvii. 37--St. Matt. xxii. 23--and other passages. § 4. St. John v....

§ 1. Lectionaries of the Church--Liturgical influence--Antiquity of the Lectionary System. § 2. St. John xiv. 1--Acts iii. 1--Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark. § 3. St. Luke vii....

§ 1. Transfer from one Gospel to another. § 2. Not entirely intentional--Various passages. § 3. St. John xvi. 16. § 4. St. John xiii. 21-25. § 5. St. Mark i. 1, 2--Other example...

§ 1. This class very evident--Began in the earliest times--Appeal to what is earlier still--Condemned in all ages and countries. § 2. The earliest depravers of the Text--Tatian'...

§ 1. Modern re-editing--difference between the New Testament and other books--immense number of copies--ordinary causes of error--Doctrinal causes. § 2. Elimination of weakly at...

§ 1. St. John x. 29. § 2. Smaller instances, and Acts xx. 24. § 3. St. Luke ii. 14. § 4. St. Mark xv. 6; vii. 4; vi. 22. § 5. St. Mark viii. 1; vii. 14--St. John xiii. 37. pp. 2...