Category: Religion/Spirituality
Appendix I. Honeycomb—ἀπὸ μελισσίου κηρίου. Appendix II. Ὄξος—Vinegar. Appendix III. The Rich Young Man. Appendix IV. St. Mark i. 1. Appendix V. The Sceptical Character Of B And א. Appendix VI. The Peshitto And Curetonian. Appendix VII. The Last Twelve Verses Of St. Mark’s Gos...
1 See Jerome, Epist. 34 (Migne, xxii. p. 448). Cod. V. of Philo has the following inscription:—Εὐζόϊος ἐπίσκοπος ἐν σωματίοις ἀνενέωσατο, i.e. transcribed on vellum from papyrus...
15. xxvii. 34, and have only to point out that it is as plain an instance ofenforced harmony as can be produced. That it exists in many copies of the Old-Latin, and lingers on in the Vulgate: is the reading of the Egyptian, Ethiopic, and Armenian Versio...
14. CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION.The Traditional Text has now been traced, from the earliest years of Christianity of which any record of the New Testament remains, to the period when it was enshrined in a larg...
4. CHAPTER III. THE SEVEN NOTES OF TRUTH.The more ancient testimony is probably the better testimony. That it is not by any means always so is a familiar fact. To quote the known dictum of a competent judge: “It is no...
6. CHAPTER V. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT(113). I. WITNESS OF THEOur readers will have observed, that the chief obstacle in the way of an unprejudiced and candid examination of the sound and comprehensive system constructed by Dean Burgon is...
13. CHAPTER XI. THE LATER UNCIALS AND THE CURSIVES.The nature of Tradition is very imperfectly understood in many quarters; and mistakes respecting it lie close to the root, if they are not themselves the root, of the chief erro...
12. CHAPTER X. THE OLD UNCIALS. CODEX D.It is specially remarkable that the Canon of Holy Scripture, which like the Text had met with opposition, was being settled in the later part of the century in which these two m...
5. CHAPTER IV. THE VATICAN AND SINAITIC MANUSCRIPTS.No progress is possible in the department of “Textual Criticism” until the superstition—for we are persuaded that it is nothing less—which at present prevails concerning certain...
3. CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES.The object of Textual Criticism, when applied to the Scriptures of the New Testament, is to determine what the Apostles and Evangelists of Christ actually wrote—the precise word...
18. iii. A further observation is to be noted, which not only confirms theabove, but serves to determine the place where the excision was made to have been at the very _end_ of the Gospel. The last of the four lines of the sixth and last column of St....
1. Chapter XII. Conclusion.Appendix I. Honeycomb—ἀπὸ μελισσίου κηρίου. Appendix II. Ὄξος—Vinegar. Appendix III. The Rich Young Man. Appendix IV. St. Mark i. 1. Appendix V. The Sceptical Character Of B And...
2. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY GROUNDS.In the ensuing pages I propose to discuss a problem of the highest dignity and importance(7): namely, On what principles the true text of the New Testament Scriptures is to be a...
7. CHAPTER VI. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT. II. WITNESS OF THEThe rise of Christianity and the spread of the Church in Syria was startling in its rapidity. Damascus and Antioch shot up suddenly into prominence as centres of Christian zeal,...
11. CHAPTER IX. THE OLD UNCIALS. THE INFLUENCE OF ORIGEN.Codex B was early enthroned on something like speculation, and has been maintained upon the throne by what has strangely amounted to a positive superstition. The text of this MS...
10. CHAPTER VIII. ALEXANDRIA AND CAESAREA.What is the real truth about the existence of an Alexandrian Text? Are there, or are there not, sufficient elements of an Alexandrian character, and of Alexandrian or Egyptian o...
9. xviii. 31) it is clear that these and the instances of the same sortoccurring everywhere in the Old-Latin Texts must be taken as finger-posts pointing in many directions. Various readings in Greek Codexes present, not a parallel, but a sharp con...
16. xii. 1-4, where the Peshitto simply translates the Textus Receptus (notaltered by our Revisers), saying that the disciples were hungry “and began to pluck ears of corn and to eat,” the Curetonian amends thus:—“and the disciples were hungry and bega...
8. CHAPTER VII. THE ANTIQUITY OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT. III. WITNESS OF THEThere are problems in what is usually termed the Western Text of the New Testament, which have not yet, as I believe, received satisfactory treatment. Critics, including even Dr...
17. ii. This suspicion becomes definite, and almost rises to a certainty, whenwe look further into the contents of this sheet. Its second page (28 _v__o_) exhibits four columns of St. Mark (xv. 16-xvi. 1); its third page (29 _r__o_), the two last columns...
24. i. 26 18726. xxiv. 3 28719. i. 2-16 180-222. i. 1 166, 279-86, 28727. i. 3-4 113, 139, 15020. v. 12 29323. xv. 23 253-425. xxiii. 34 111, 138, 149, 29021. vi. 1 290