A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I.Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
and Cyril are the best known. In text it generally favours the B and א
and their company. In the 564 places wherein Tischendorf cites it in his
eighth edition, it supports Cod. L in full three cases out of four, and
those the most characteristic. It stands alone only fourteen times, and
with Cod. L or others against the five great uncials only thirty times. In
regard to these five, Cod. Ξ sides plainly with Cod. B in preference to
Cod. A, following B alone seven times, BL twenty-four times, but א
thirteen times, A fifteen times, C (which is often defective) five times,
D fourteen times, with none of these unsupported except with א once. Their
combinations in agreement with Ξ are curious and complicated, but lead to
the same result. This copy is with אB six times, with אBL fifty-five;
with אBC twenty, but with אBD as many as fifty-four times, with אBCD
thirty-eight times; with BCD thrice, with BC six times, with BD thirteen.
It combines with אA ten times, with AC fifteen, with AD eleven, with אAC
sixteen, with ACD twelve, with אAD six, with אACD twelve. Thus Cod. Ξ
favours B against A 226 times, A against B ninety-seven. Combinations of
its readings opposed to both A and B are אC six, אD eight, CD two, אCD
three. In the other passages it favours ABC against אD eleven times, ABCD
against א eight times, אABC against D eighteen times, אABD against C, or
where C is defective, thirty-nine times, and is expressly cited
twenty-seven times as standing with אABCD against later copies. The
character of the variations of Cod. Ξ from the Received text may be judged
of by the estimate made by some scholar, that forty-seven of them are
transpositions in the order of the words, 201 are substitutions of one
word for another, 118 are omissions, while the additions do not exceed
twenty-four (_Christian Remembrancer_, January, 1862). The cursive
Evangelistarium written over the uncial is noticed below, and bears the
mark 200*.
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