 MSS., by their mutual assist" anee, do so settle the original text to the smallest nicety, as "cannot be performed now in any classic author whatever: and " that out of a labyrinth of thirty thousand various readings, " that crowd the pages of our present...  Novum Testamentum Graece: Prolegomena - Page 2321884Full view - About this book
 | Conyers Middleton - Lord's Supper - 1755 - 500 pages
...WirdParagraph. A Labyrinth of thirty thoufand various Readings, which crowd the Pages of our prefent beft Editions, all put upon equal Credit, to the Offence of many good Perfons. Had the learned Dr. Whitbyt and the greater Pare of the Clergy, And fpeaking of fome onely... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 574 pages
...sufficient for a new edition. Our Master had said, that 30,000 various readings now crowd the pages of our best editions, all put upon equal credit, to the offence of many good persons.1 Here our pious calumniator first mangles the sentence, and knowingly puts a false d Huetius,... | |
 | Samuel Davidson - Bible - 1853 - 500 pages
...Classic Author whatever: and that out of a labyrinth of thirty thousand various readings, that croud, the pages of our present best editions, all put upon...thousands that can deserve the least consideration." In modern times Lachmann was the first who elevated the Latin version to its proper place and authority... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Bible - 1862 - 254 pages
...two centuries after. And he is " sure that the Greek and Latin MSS., by their mutual assist" anee, do so settle the original text to the smallest nicety,...leads and extricates us, that there will scarce be two hun" dred out of so many thousands that can deserve the least con" sideration. " IV. To confirm the... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1862 - 274 pages
...two centuries after. And he is " sure that the Greek and Latin MSS., by their mutual assist" anee, do so settle the original text to the smallest nicety,...credit, to the offence of many good persons, this clue " во leads and extricates us, that there will scarce be two hun" dred out of so many thousands that... | |
 | Sir Frederic George Kenyon - Bible - 1901 - 376 pages
...of his undertaking, is thus expressed in the third paragraph of his Proposals for Printing : — " The author believes that he has retrieved (except...thousands that can deserve the least consideration." As a specimen, the last chapter of the Apocalypse was printed with the proposals, but the apparatus... | |
 | James Rendel Harris - Bible - 1908 - 262 pages
...matter? Are we as sure as he was that he had a test by which to separate the precious from the vile, and that " out of a labyrinth of thirty thousand various...this clue so leads and extricates us, that there will be scarce two hundred out of so many thousands that can deserve the least consideration." How is that... | |
 | David S. Katz - Religion - 2004 - 428 pages
...which was the standard to the most learned of the Fathers, at the time of the Council of Nie [a] e [a] and two centuries after. And he is sure, that the...thousands that can deserve the least consideration. This work of collation is supplemented by use of the versions in Syriac, Coptic, Gothic, and Ethiopie,... | |
 | Bart D. Ehrman - Religion - 2006 - 268 pages
...author believes that he has retrieved (except in very few places) the true exemplar of Origen. . . . And he is sure, that the Greek and Latin MSS., by...thousands that can deserve the least consideration. 10 Paring down the significant variants from Mill's thirty thousand to a mere two hundred is obviously... | |
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