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
The only manuscripts are m as for the Gospels, and g and h as for the
Acts, h exhibits only fragments of cc. i. and ii., viii. and ix., xi.
and xii., and xiv.-xvi.
For the Old Latin Biblical Texts edited by Wordsworth and White, see
below, p. 131.
[Sidenote: Latin Fathers.]
On account of the small number of these manuscripts the quotations of
the Latin Fathers are valuable, especially those of _Cyprian_ of
Carthage,[99] and after them the recently discovered citations in
_Priscillian_, who was the first to suffer death as a heretic in the
year 385. In the Apocalypse we have the quotations of _Primasius_,
Bishop of Hadrumet (ca. 550), who used in his commentary on the
Apocalypse not only his own Old Latin Bible but also a revised version
the same as that used by the African Donatist _Tyconius_. In attempting
to classify these witnesses it was found that the text of certain
manuscripts coincided with that of the Bible used by Cyprian—viz., in
the Gospels k especially, in Acts h, and in the Apocalypse Primasius and
h. This family has accordingly been designated the =African=.
_Tertullian_, a still earlier African Father, undoubtedly refers to the
existence of a Latin Version in his time, but the quotations found in
his Latin works cannot be taken into account, for this reason, that in
citing the New Testament he seems to have made an independent
translation from the Greek for his immediate purpose.[100]
As for the quotations in Augustine, they are found to resemble the text
of f and q in the Gospels, particularly the former, and that of q, r,
and r_{3} in the Epistles. To this group, therefore, the name =Italian=
has been given. It has, however, been deemed necessary to regard this
Italian family as being itself a revised and smoother form of a still
earlier version styled the =European=, which is thought to be
represented by g, g_{2}, and s in the Acts, by ff in the Epistles, and
by g in the Apocalypse.
[Sidenote: Old Latin Texts.]
As illustrating the way in which the various forms deviate from each
other, take the text of Luke xxiv., verses 4, 5, 11, and 13 as exhibited
by a b c d e f and the Vulgate (vg).
v. 4.—All the seven agree in the opening words, Et factum est dum; but
after that there follows:—
(1) stuperent a c, mente consternatae essent b, vg; mente consternatae
sunt e, aporiarentur d, haesitarent f.
(2) de hoc a c f, de facto b, de eo d, de isto e, vg.
(3) ecce a c d f, vg; et ecce b e.
(4) viri duo a f, duo viri b c d e, vg.
(5) adstiterunt a f, astiterunt c, adsisterunt d, steterunt b e, vg.
(6) iuxta illas a f, secus illas b c e, vg; eis d.
(7) in veste fulgenti a f, vg; in veste fulgente b c e, in amictu
scoruscanti d.
(8) v. 5: timore autem adprehensae inclinantes faciem ad terram a; cum
timerent autem et declinarent vultum in terram b e f, vg; conterritae
autem inclinaverunt faciem in terram c; in timore autem factae
inclinaverunt vultus suos in terra d.
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