The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels: Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy GospelsBurgon, John William
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The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels: Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
Burgon, John William
Bible. Gospels -- Criticism, Textual
Explanation has been already given, how the introductions to Lections,
and other Liturgical formulae, have been added by insertion to the Text
in various places. Thus [Greek: ho Iesous] has often been inserted, and
in some places remains wrongly (in the opinion of Dean Burgon) in the
pages of the Received Text. The three most important additions to the
Received Text occur, as Dean Burgon thought, in St. Matt. vi. 18, where
[Greek: en to phanero] has crept in from v. 6 against the testimony of a
large majority both of Uncial and of Cursive MSS.: in St. Matt. xxv. 13,
where the clause [Greek: en he ho huios tou anthropou erchetai] seemed
to him to be condemned by a superior weight of authority: and in St.
Matt. xxvii. 35, where the quotation ([Greek: hina plerothe ... ebalon
kleron]) must be taken for similar reasons to have been originally a
gloss.]
FOOTNOTES:
[338] [Greek: prosengisai] is transitive here, like [Greek: engizo] in
Gen. xlviii. 10, 13: 2 Kings iv. 6: Isaiah xlvi. 13.
[339] The following are the numbers of Transpositions supplied by B,
[Symbol: Aleph], and D in the Gospels:--B, 2,098: [Symbol: Aleph],
2,299: D, 3,471. See Revision Revised, pp. 12, 13.
[340] Marcion (Epiph. i. 317): Eusebius (Mai, iv. 266): Epiphanius (i.
348): Cyril (Mai, ii. 438): John Thess. (Gall. xiii. 188).
[341] St. John v. 26, in [Symbol: Aleph]
[342] St. Mark ii. 12, in D.
[343] St. Luke xiv. 13, in [Symbol: Aleph]B.
[344] St. John v. 27.
[345] 'Nec aliter' (says Tischendorf) 'Tertull.' (Prax. 21),--'_et
judicium dedit illi facere in potestate_.' But this (begging the learned
critic's pardon) is quite a different thing.
[346] See the very learned, ingenious, and satisfactory disquisition in
The Revision Revised, pp. 424-501.
[347] The numbers are:--
B, substitutions, 935; modifications, 1,132; total, 2,067.
[Symbol: Aleph], " 1,114; " 1,265; " 2,379.
D, " 2,121; " 1,772; " 3,893.
Revision Revised, pp. 12, 13.
[348] B has 536 words added in the Gospels: [Symbol: Aleph], 839: D,
2,213. Revision Revised, pp. 12, 13. The interpolations of D are
notorious.
[349] St. Luke vii. 10.
[350] Theoph. p. 212.
[351] An opposite fate, strange to say, has attended a short clause in
the same narrative, which however is even worse authenticated. Instead
of [Greek: oude en to Israel tosauten pistin euron] (St. Matt. viii.
10), we are invited henceforth to read [Greek: par' oudeni tosauten
pistin en to Israel euron];--a tame and tasteless gloss, witnessed to by
only B, and five cursives,--but having no other effect, if it should
chance to be inserted, than to mar and obscure the Divine utterance.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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