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Page 22 - Nemo cum Prophetas versibus viderit esse descriptos metro eos aestimet apud Hebraeos ligari, et aliquid simile habere de Psalmis vel operibus Salomonis : sed quod in Demosthene et Tullio solet fieri, ut per cola scribantur et commata, qui utique prosa et non versibus conscripscrunt, nos quoque idilitati legentium providentes, interpretationem novam novo scribendi genere distinximus1.
Page 34 - And the same statement somewhat modified seems to have been repeated right on to the present. According to Scrivener, Introduction to the NT p. 60...
Page 4 - It will be evident, however, that these quotations really imply nothing more than a general statement that Callimachus entered books under certain catalogues, in which were found, with the name of the author and the title of the book, the first line of its contents, and the number of lines. And M. Graux...
Page 48 - ... almost all the causes which tend to produce variety of stichometric subscription are in operation. In particular the variety of texts is great. The Textus Receptus, for example, shows an excess of at least 50 hexameters in the Gospel of Matthew over the text of Westcott and Hort. This makes our enquiry extremely interesting, for we begin at once to ask such questions as relate to the authenticity of the last twelve verses of Mark, the pericope de adultera, and other important passages. Does the...