Hebrew, while the Authorized Version with the cursives agrees with it.
The majority of Greek cursives agree generally with the Latin Vulgate, and offer the fuller text in a corrupt form.
All the cursives may be declared to exhibit [Greek: en], e.
Not so B and C with four other uncials and about twenty cursives (the vicious Evan.
If it be not decisive of the point at issue to find such a torrent of primitive testimony at one with the bulk of the Uncials and Cursives extant, it is clear that there can be no Science of Textual Criticism.
Sinaitic, however, and the valuable cursives 1 and 33 with the Aethiopic (a version on which not much reliance can be placed) and m.
So diverse, however, is the testimony they respectively render, that they are found severally to differ from the Text of the cursives no less than 70 times.
The uncials are the oldest, as they are the fewest; there are only one hundred and twenty-seven of them in all; while of the cursives there are about fifteen hundred.
Yet we may believe the reading to be as false as it is intolerable, and to afford us another proof of the early and (as the cursives show) the well-nigh universal corruption of our copies in some minute particulars.
As regards thecursives nearly the same must be said.
If so, the phenomenon shews itself, that by the very manner in which they are written, Cursives mutely declare that they are not solely the children of the Uncials.
Cursives show a great advance in workmanship, being indited, as the name suggests, in running and more easily flowing letters, with "a system of punctuation much the same as in printed books.
The real difference between Uncials and Cursives is patent to all people who have any knowledge of the subject.
And as to the Cursives having been copies of Codex A, a moderate knowledge of the real character of that manuscript, and a just estimate of the true value of it, would effectually remove such a hallucination.
Besides this inference, we have seen that it is also most probable that many of the Cursives were transcribed directly from papyrus books or rolls.
This aspect alone of the case under consideration invests the Cursiveswith much more interest and value than many people would nowadays attribute to them.
As contrasted with one another, Uncials as a class enjoy a great superiority, if antiquity is considered; and Cursives are just as much higher than the sister class, if workmanship is to be the guiding principle of judgement.
The instances which have been given in this chapter of the superiority of the text exhibited in the later Uncials and the Cursives might have been increased in number to almost any extent out of the papers left by Dean Burgon.
By consequence, it is popularly supposed that since we are possessed of such Uncial Copies, we could afford to dispense with the testimony of the Cursives altogether.
Text of the later Uncials and especially the Text of the Cursives is a debased Text.
Whenever we observe a formal consensus of the Cursives for any reading, there, almost invariably, is a grand consensus observable for the same reading of the Uncials.
The cursives (and late uncials) are all agreed in this reading.
Again, the text of the Cursives enjoys unquestionably the support of by very far the largest number among themselves, and also of the Uncials and Versions and Fathers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cursives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
