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.
From this time forward the Clementine Vulgate (sometimes under the name of
Clement, sometimes under that of Sixtus, sometimes under both names)(87)
has been the standard edition for the Roman Church; by the Bull of 1592,
every edition must be assimilated to this one, no word of the text may be
altered, nor even variant readings printed in the margin(88).
Thus the modern attempts at a scientific and critical revision of this
version have come from students mainly outside the communion of the Roman
Church.
The design of Bentley for a critical Greek Testament is described below
(Chap. V); it was obvious that for its prosecution the MSS. of the Vulgate
would have to be collated as carefully as those of the Greek text itself;
and accordingly the variant readings of a good number were collected by
Bentley himself, nos. 3, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71,
72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 82, 83, 85, 155, 160; other MSS. were collated by his
friend and colleague John Walker, who worked much at Paris in 1719 and the
following years; to him we owe collations of nos. 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20,
21, 52, 96, 97, 102, 151, 164, while he obtained collations of the Tours
MSS. (nos. 106, 107, 108, 166) from L. Chevalier, through their common
friend Sabatier; and of the Oxford MSS. (nos. 86, 87, 89, 90, 148, 161),
from David Casley. Walker died, however, in November, 1741, six months
before the great Bentley, and the projected edition came to naught(89).
Their collations have not been published, but are contained in the
following volumes, in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge: B. 17. 5
containing collations by Walker, Chevalier, Casley, and Bentley; and B.
17. 15 containing collations by Bentley; and they have been made use of by
Bishop Wordsworth in his edition of the Vulgate(90).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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