Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New TestamentNestle, Eberhard
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Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament
Nestle, Eberhard
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Textual
An important innovation of another sort is due to the same Robert
Stephen, who printed at Geneva in the following year (1551) a fourth
edition containing the Greek text with the Latin version of Erasmus on
the outer side and the Vulgate on the inner.[7] With a view to carrying
out this arrangement conveniently, he divided the text into separate
verses or very small sections, which he numbered on the margin. In this
way he introduced into the New Testament not only a convenient
verse-enumeration—there are 7959 verses in all—but also the unfortunate
practice of printing the text in separate verses. Mill in 1707, and
notably Bengel in 1734, were the first to revert to the practice of
printing the text in paragraphs divided according to the sense while
retaining the enumeration of the verses in the margin. [Sidenote:
Chapters.] The customary division of the New Testament books into
chapters is much earlier, having been first invented in Paris for the
Latin Bible by Stephen Langton (died Archbishop of Canterbury in 1228),
and at once adopted in the earliest printed editions of the Vulgate. It
was employed in the Complutensian Polyglot with a subdivision of the
various chapters into A B C etc.
LITERATURE.—_Nov. Test. textus Stephanici_ A.D. 1550, _ed._
Scrivener, Camb., 1859, 1871 etc. Hoskier (as above) ... (B) _A
Reprint with corrections of Scrivener’s list of differences between
the editions of Stephen 1550 and Elzevir 1624, Beza 1565 and the
Complutensian, together with fresh evidence ... by the other
editions of Stephen of 1546, 1549, 1551...._ Ezra Abbot, _De
Versibus_, in _TiGr._ 167-182. I. H. Hall, _Modern Chapters and
Verses_, in Schaff’s _Religious Encyclopædia_, i. 433. _Journal of
the Soc. of Bib. Lit. and Exeg._, 1883, 60; 1891, 65.
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