These writers have reference to what are called "various readings," not to mutilations and alterations, such as those charged by the ancients upon Marcion, by which he sought to change the facts and doctrines of the gospel.
He does not propose many new emendations of his own; but he seems a very acute judge of the merit of various readings, and a judicious selector from the corrections of others.
A digest of the best commentators, and a collection of various readings, were accordingly prepared by him.
It has been acutely pointed out long since, that the absence of a vast assemblage of various Readings in this place, is, in itself, a convincing argument that we have here to do with no spurious appendage to the Gospel.
For it will be perceived by the attentive reader that not more than two or three of the multitude of various readings afforded by this short Scholion can have possibly resulted from careless transcription.
Shakespeare, after which come the notes and various readings to the different plays, which fill the remainder of vol.
This was Bentley's opinion upon the possible disturbance offered to the Christian by various readings in the New Testament.
Why, he, the great scholar, pronounced, as with the authority of a Chancery decree, that the vast majority of various readings made no difference at all in the sense.
And though in those days no practical mischief could arise from this singular erratum, which English Griesbachs will hardly enter upon the roll of various readings, yet, harmless as it was, it met with punishment.
Moreover he gives no critical notes onvarious readings in cases where there is more than one copy extant of any passage.
Not but what "various readings," properly so called, are as plentiful in sacred as in profane codexes.
The expression "various readings" belongs to secular literature and refers to phenomena essentially different from those exhibited by the copies just mentioned.
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