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Page 6 - Moliere, as a name, a part of modern literature ? Mr. Andrew Lang tells a most delightful story of a printer, who found in his ' copy ' some reference to ' the Scapin of Poquelin.' This hopelessly puzzled him, till a bright idea struck his inventive mind, and he printed it —
Page 86 - golden canon," that "no reading can possibly be original which contradicts the context of the passage or the tenor of the writing...
Page 200 - These also are somewhere current : ' But all things that were commanded, they immediately announced to those about Peter. And after this Jesus also Himself, from the east even to the west, sent forth by them the sacred and incorruptible proclamation of eternal salvation.' These are also, however, current, after
Page 14 - Tis competently exact indeed in the worst MS. now extant ; nor is one article of faith or moral precept either perverted or lost in them ; choose as awkwardly as you will, choose the worst by design, out of the whole lump of readings.
Page 12 - ... its holy words, — such has been the providence of God in preserving for His Church in each and every age a competently exact text of the Scriptures, that not only is the New Testament unrivalled among ancient writings in the purity of its text as actually transmitted and kept in use, but also in the abundance of testimony which has come down to us for castigating its comparatively infrequent blemishes.
Page 22 - Manuscripts, the Ancient Versions, and Earlier Ecclesiastical Writers, (to Eusebius inclusive;) together with the Latin Version of Jerome from the Codex Amiatinus of the Sixth Century, 4to: Part 1, (containing the Gospels of St.
Page 14 - Abbot was accustomed to say that about nineteen-twentieths of them have so little support that, although they are various readings, no one would think of them as rival readings; and nineteen-twentieths of the remainder are of so little importance that their adoption or rejection would cause no appreciable difference in the sense of the passages where they occur.
Page 15 - If, then, we undertake the textual criticism of the New Testament under a sense of duty, we may bring it to a conclusion under the inspiration of hope. The autographic text of the New Testament is distinctly within the reach of criticism in so immensely the greater part of the volume, that we cannot despair of restoring to ourselves and the Church of God, His Book, word for word, as He gave it by inspiration to men.