Nestle's account of the materials which New Testament textual criticism has to deal with.
Edited, with an Introduction, Textual Notes, and a Commentary, by W.
Edited with a full Introduction, Textual Notes, and a Commentary at the foot of the page.
In the second, as distinguished from the first which treats chiefly of textual misinterpretations, Mr. Brown deals with doctrines and conclusions derived from misinterpreted texts; e.
With the exception of the text of the Apocalypse and of the appendices rendered necessary by the progress of textual criticism since the earlier portions of the work were published, this long-expected work is now placed in our hands.
The consequence of so much textual citation in books and sermons was the increased popularity of theology.
The Textual Witness to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Pentateuch.
Textual criticism," by which an endeavour is made to discover the precise words written by the writers of the New Testament, where discrepancies exist in the manuscripts, has become a science.
The simplest solution is to suppose a textual corruption, and to make the slight change required for the rendering of the A.
Probably, therefore, there is textual corruption here, which the LXX.
But a textual correction, which is desirable on other grounds, makes the fifth letter (He) the initial of ver.
Those who would assail it successfully must come forward with weapons of a very different kind from those usually employed in textual warfare.
But the studies of textual critics have led them to combine all kinds of corruption chiefly under the two heads of the Western or Syrio-Low-Latin class, and in a less prominent province of the Alexandrian.
And vowels especially were interchanged; accordingly, such change became in many instances the cause of corruption, and is known in Textual Criticism under the name 'Itacism.
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.
But there remains after all an alarmingly large assortment of textual perturbations which absolutely refuse to fall under any of the heads of classification already enumerated.
Our object has been to describe and establish what we conceive to be the true principles of Sacred Textual Science.
So then, the process of 'correction' was a critical process conducted on utterly erroneous principles by men who knew nothing whatever about Textual Criticism.
Indeed, the high antiquity of the Church's Lectionary System is inferred with certainty from many a textual phenomenon with which students of Textual Science are familiar.
The sum of what has been offered may be thus briefly stated:--The textual perturbation observable at St. Matt.
It is a singular circumstance that at the end of eighteen centuries two instances, and but two, should exist of a considerable portion of Scripture left to the mercy, so to speak, of 'Textual Criticism.
Tregelles insists 'that on every true principle of textual criticism, the words must be regarded as an amplification borrowed from the Prophet.
This is not the place for citing examples of textual difficulty: so I must be content with referring to Dyce's elaborate annotation on the play.
Nevertheless, the foundations were laid for both the textual and the higher criticism.
His editions of the Latin poets first laid down and applied sound rules of textual emendation, besides elucidating the authors with a wealth of learned comment.
These transpositions would alone suffice to show how complicated is thetextual history of the Vita: we may have to consider some of them later on.
This they did on different grounds, but in each case their agreement has behind it a defective textual basis.
His textual basis, however, for these words is Dr.
Thus we see how wide a margin should be allowed, in these calculations, for textual error.
David's sons, born in Jerusalem, were all children of Bathsheba; the remaining seven are increased to nine by a textual error which occurs also in the LXX version of 2Samuel v.
But the textual critics of the Exegetical Handbook are only too like-minded with the Chronicler, and are always eagerly seizing with both hands his paste pearls and the similar gifts of the Septuagint.
I do not reckon because they proceed from various periods, and are mostly younger than the Deuteronomic revision, and belong rather to textual than to literary criticism.
He was one of the first to establish the true principles of textual criticism; at the request of Innocent VIII.
It was Semler who induced him to turn his attention to the textual criticism of the New Testament.
I understood, not through exegetical fantasies or profound and ingenious textual combinations; I understood everything, because I put all commentaries out of my mind.
The connecting particles are commonly observed; and as the language has both definite and indefinite articles, it may be employed, though with some caution, by the textual critic where other versions fail him.
This work, which preserves a large number of passages not to be found elsewhere, has been strangely neglected bytextual critics(110).
He was led by certain textual theories he had adopted, and which we shall best describe hereafter, to a close examination of the works of Origen, the most celebrated Biblical critic of antiquity.
The textual affinities can hardly be worked out with the small amount of material we possess, but there seems to be little doubt that it represents in a very early form the same version that we are acquainted with in Sahidic.
Thebaic New Testament is now the most pressing want in the province of textual criticism," writes Bp.
The real textual value of the Sahidic cannot under present circumstances be assigned with any certainty.
In considering the version from the point of view of the textual criticism of the New Testament, we need not deal with its later history except in so far as that throws light on its original form.
But in 1805 evil times were hastening upon Germany, and so unfortunately for the poor man and for textual students these collections have disappeared and left no trace behind.
The progress of Textual Science has involved two chief stages; the first, in which all evidence was accepted and registered, and the second, when a selection was made and the rest either partially or totally disregarded.
Syrian text presents numerous instances of readings which, according to all textual probability, must be considered to be combinations of early readings still extant.
It will not include therefore any notice of editions like that of Valpy, or of Bloomfield, or Alford, or Wordsworth, in which the textualtreatment did not assume prominence or involve advancement in this province.
The Chinese version seems to have been signed by the British agent without his having before him a textual English translation: by its provisions the Chinese authorities engaged to protect the junk traffic in colonial waters.
Baiter's strong point was textual criticism, applied chiefly to Cicero and the Attic orators; he was very successful in hunting up the best MS.
But it is strange that a scholar and textual critic of his eminence and of European reputation should have made comparatively little mark in his native country.
He is not prepared to entirely accept this criticism of the theologians, however, nor am I, believing that both the topical and the textual methods of preaching have their attractions and advantages.
Sidenote: Expository Sermons Defined] Expository sermons differ from thetextual not so much in kind as in degree.
In the times of the Nonconformists the textual method came into practice again; but, notwithstanding, exposition was considered a necessary part of ministerial labour.
