A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II.Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
1. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,479 [A.D. 534], the fourteen Epistles of St.
Paul, Hebrews being always included by the Syrians.
2. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,459 [A.D. 530, last letter illegible], SS.
Luke and John. Possibly older than the last.
3. Rome, Vatican [A.D. 548]. A Tetraevangelium, written at Edessa.
4. Florence, Laurentian Library [A.D. 586].
5. Brit. Mus. 14,460 [A.D. 600]. A Nestorian Estrangelo, written
in the district of Naarda, near Bagdad.
6. Brit. Mus. 14,471 [A.D. 615]. Another Nestorian MS. of the
Gospels, written at Nisibis.
7. Cod. Guelpherbytanus [A.D. 634]. Written in the convent of Beth
Chela, near Damascus.
8. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,448 [A.D. 699-700]. A Nestorian MS. Whole of
New Testament as received in the Syrian Church.
9. Brit. Mus. Add. 7157 [A.D. 768]. Written at Beth Kuka.
10. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,459 [about A.D. 450], SS. Matthew and Mark.
11. Brit. Mus. Add. 17,117 [about A.D. 450].
12. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,470 [v-vi]. Whole of Peshitto New
Testament. The Pericope de Adultera has been added as stated
above, p. 10.
13. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,453 [v-vi]. A Tetraevangelium.
14. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,476 [v-vi]. Paul.
15. Brit. Mus. Add. 14,480 [v-vi]. Paul.
16. Cod. Crawfordianus I [vi]. A very handsome Tetraevangelium,
and in excellent preservation.
17. Codd. Dawkinsiani III, XXVII, in the Bodleian Library.
18. Partial collations of many other MSS. in the British Museum.
19. The editions published by the American Bible Society, which
were, at least to some extent, revised on the authority of ancient
Nestorian copies.
20. The evidence of the Syriac Massorah of both the Nestorian and
the Jacobite (Karkaphensian) recensions.
It is necessary to mention briefly this remarkable wealth of evidence,
probably to be largely increased by future investigations, in which the
Peshitto presents no inconsiderable parallel to the vast amount of
authorities on which the Greek Text of the New Testament depends, because
people are apt to underrate the grand position of the Peshitto version,
when comparing it with the Curetonian Syriac, of which the sole evidence
consists only of two codices, if the newly-discovered one turns out to be
what was anticipated.
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