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
With what has been said the student should compare what Von der Goltz
tells us of a critical work upon the text of the New Testament belonging
partly to the tenth and partly to the sixth century.[180] This, too,
goes back to Origen, and in a scholion on James ii. 3, the greater part
of which is unfortunately erased, the work mentions “a manuscript
written by the hand of St. Eusebius.” As Zahn elsewhere shows, the
writer of the Athos manuscript did not base his own work on this Codex
of Eusebius, and in one passage he expressly contrasts it with the text
of Origen which he follows. In spite of this, however, this Athos
manuscript must be taken into account in dealing with the recension of
Pamphilus. Still more so must the Armenian and Syriac texts, according
to Conybeare and von Dobschütz.[181] Even the Latin manuscripts may
contain traces of this recension. E. Riggenbach has shown that the table
of chapters in Hebrews given in Codex Fuldensis and in a manuscript
indicated as Cod. Vat. Reg. 9, is nothing but a translation of the
corresponding part of “Euthalius.”[182] Unfortunately the relics of the
literary activity of Pamphilus, that devoted student of the
Scriptures,[183] are exceedingly scanty, and what little is left is
extant only in a Latin translation. In these circumstances the attempt
to specify more closely than hitherto his manuscripts of the Bible by
means of his quotations does seem rather hopeless.
[Sidenote: Later revisers.]
(_d_) As we are now dealing with the question how to arrive at the
oldest form of the Greek text, it is unnecessary to take account of the
labours of any later individuals in the formation of the Greek New
Testament. Among these were Emperors and Empresses like Constantine and
Constans, who exerted themselves in the dissemination of the Scriptures,
and perhaps even made copies of them with their own hands, but these we
may disregard.[184] The work of _Andreas_ and _Arethas_ on the
Apocalypse will be noticed when we come to speak of that book. One
naturally turns here to Krumbacher’s _History of Byzantine Literature_,
but the index to the first edition of that work contains only two
references to the New Testament, neither of them bearing on our present
subject. The matter is one which may be commended to those who have the
time and the opportunity and the willingness to investigate it, and
considering the ardour with which the study of Byzantine antiquities is
being prosecuted at present, it may suffice merely to throw out this
hint.
[Sidenote: Pre-Origenic texts.]
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