. The textus receptus, therefore, or the text | berin readings, also Marshall's extracts from the Coptic and Gothic pied, with a few exceptions, from the text versions, and the readings of twelve Bodleian, four Dublin, and closely followed Stephens; and Stephens two Paris manuscripts. As Bishop Fell's edition sells at a low dition) copied solely from the fifth edition price, it may be substituted for the more expensive critical editions e Revelation, where he followed sometimes of the New Testament by those who cannot purchase them. The e Complutensian edition. The text there- text is formed according to that of Robert Stephens and the Elzees itself at last into the Complutensian and virs; though Wetstein has accused it of retaining the errors of the ishop Marsh's Lectures, part i. p. 110.) former, as well as of some of Walton's Polyglott. Bishop Fell's of 1624 was reprinted at Leyden in 1633, edition was reprinted at Leipsic in 1697 and 1702, and at Oxford in 41, at Amsterdam in 1656, 1662, 1670, and 1703, in folio. This magnificent edition, which takes its name from in 1628, Gr.-Of these various impressions, the editor, Dr. Gregory, contains no accession of critical materials, 1633 is the best and in most request: it is and sells at a low price. xt divided into separate verses. The edition Sedan, has long been regarded as a typograhowever, greatly inferior in point of execu small and clear edition printed by Bleau at Brunet, Manuel, tom. iii. pp. 432, 433. Diblassics, vol. i. pp. 136, 137.) Good copies of ns are scarce and dear; but they are both of size and in typographical neatness by the 7, published by Mr. Pickering. See No. 49. entum, studio et labore Stephani CURCEL1658, 12mo. 1675, 1685, 12mo. 1699,

es.

10. Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. Novum Testamentum Græcum, cum lectionibus variantibus MSS. Exemplarium, Versionum, Editionum, SS. Patrum et Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, et in easdem notis. Studio et labore Joannis MILLII, S.T.P. Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano. 1707. folio.

The labour of thirty years was devoted to this edition by Dr. Mill, who finished it only fourteen days before his death. The text, which is that of Robert Stephens's edition of 1550, is beautifully printed; and the various readings and parallel passages are placed below. Dr. Mill has inserted all the previously existing collections of various readings; he collated several original edi tions, procured extracts from hitherto uncollated Greek MSS., and revised and augmented the extracts from the Gothic and Coptic Curcellæus or Courcelles are in great repute versions which had appeared in Bishop Fell's edition; and added ecuracy: the text is formed on that of the Elzenumerous readings from other ancient versions, and from the quoed the greatest number of various readings to tations of the New Testament in the writings of the fathers. The on of the New Testament prior to that in the prolegomena contain a treasure of sacred criticism. Michaelis op Walton's Polyglott. These various lections observes that "notwithstanding those of Wetstein, they still retain ation of manuscripts and printed editions, and their original value, for they contain a great deal of matter which of the page, and partly at the end of the Acts is not in Wetstein; and of the matter which is common to both, Curcellæus has also given a valuable colsome things are more clearly explained by Mill. This edition was assages. The edition of 1675 contains a pro-reprinted by Kuster at Rotterdam, in 1710, in folio, with the readSt. Paul's Epistles, which Boecler had printed ings of twelve additional MSS., some of which had been previ from a manuscript brought from the East by ously but imperfectly collated. Whatever readings were given in and differs from the first edition only in hav- Mill's appendix, as coming too late for insertion under the text, eadings placed at the foot of the page. The were in this second edition transferred to their proper places. In tions were printed after the death of Curcel- point of accuracy, however, Kuster's edition is considered inferior the second only in having the text printed in to that of Dr. Mill. There are copies of Kuster's edition with the ohn Gottlieb Moller, a divine of Rostock, pub- date of Amsterdam, 1723, in the title-page; but Masch says that it against the Curcellæan editions, entitled Cur-probably is nothing more than the edition of 1710 with a new originalis N. T. textus variantium lectionum et title-page. Some copies are also dated 1746. To render this editure Locorum additamentis vestita, socinizans. tion more easy of reference, the Rev. Joseph HALLETT, jun., a it. ad Nov. Test. p. 280.) has charged Courcelles learned dissenting minister, in 1728, published an Index, containmultiplying various readings, and making them ing an account of the MSS. consulted by Mill and Kuster; entitled order to subserve the Socinian scheme. Michae- Index Librorum MSS. Græcorum et Versionum Antiquarum Novi e charges are not wholly unfounded. The pas- Faderis, quos viri eruditissimi J. Millius et L. Kusterus cum tertia tumpeus are 1 John v. 7.; John x. 30. and xvii. editione Stephanicâ contulerunt. This publication is in 8vo., and is e doctrine of the Trinity; Rom. ix. 5. 1 John not of common occurrence. i. 3., concerning the Son of God; and Rom. iii. 42., concerning the satisfaction made by Jesus

The various readings of Dr. Mill, amounting to 30,000, were attacked by Dr. Whitby, in 1710, in an elaborate work entitled itions of Curcellæus are scarce and dear. Examen Variantium Lectionum Johannis Mill, with more zeal amentum, Gr. Lat. in the fifth volume of the than knowledge of sacred criticism. It was afterwards annexed which is described in p. 20. infra. to Whitby's Commentary on the New Testament. Dr. W.'s arguments were applied by Anthony Collins against Divine Revelation, eserving of particular notice, as being the first in his Discourse on Free-thinking; which was refuted by Dr. Testament that is furnished with a complete Bentley under the assumed title of Phileleutherus Lipsiensis, The text is that of Robert Stephens's folio edi-"whose reply," says Bishop Marsh," has been translated into seve e various readings Bishop Walton has incorporal foreign languages, and should be studied by every man who is olume; and in addition to them he has given a desirous of forming just notions of biblical criticism." (Lectures, ts from sixteen Greek manuscripts, which were part ii. p. 13.) e direction of Archbishop Usher. "They are ead of the collation in the sixth volume by Walfurther account of them is given in the ProleGreek Testament (§ 1372-1396.) and in Michaeo the New Testament (vol. ii. chap. viii.) But he Greek manuscripts were neither the sole nor which the Polyglott afforded for the emendation In addition to the Latin Vulgate, it contains the , and the Ethiopic versions of the New Testaersian in the gospels. And these oriental verarranged in the most convenient manner, for the ring them with the Greek, but they are accom1 Latin translations, that even they who are unhe oriental languages might still have recourse is readings, though indeed with less security, as liable to make mistakes."-(Bishop Marsh's Lec

11. Dr. Edward WELLS published an edition of the Greek Testament, at Oxford, in 4to. in detached portions, between the years 1709 and 1719. It is noticed among the commentaries infra, in this Appendix; but "as it exhibits a corrected text of the Greek Testament, it claims also a place in the present list of editions, though subsequent improvements in sacred criticism have in a great measure superseded the emendations of Dr. Wells." (Bishop Marsh.) Dr. Nares, in his Strictures on the Unitarian Version of the New Testament, has made frequent and honourable mention of the critical labours of Wells.

12. Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ. Novum Testamentum, post priores Steph. Curcellæi et D.D. Oxoniensium labores. Cum prolegomenis G.D.T.M. et notis in find adjectis. Amstelodami, ex Officina Wetsteniana. 1711; 1735. small 8vo.

ΗΣ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣ ΑΠΑΝΤΑ. Novi Testamenti Accesserunt Parallela Scripturæ Loca, nec non the most accurate. The editor of the first was Gerard von Maestricht es ex plus 100 MSS. Codicibis et antiquis (Gerardus De Trajecto Mosa) a syndic of the republic of Bremen; the second was revised by the celebrated critic J. J. Wetstein. tæ. Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano. 1675. 8vo. Having been published by his relative Henry Wetstein, a bookas superintended by the learned Dr. John FELL, seller of Amsterdam, these editions of the New Testament are whose design in giving it to the public was, to sometimes improperly called Wetstein's; and from the name of hensions which had been raised in the minds of Curcellæus being printed in the title, they are in most catalogues orant of criticism, relative to the supposed uncer-erroneously styled Nov. Test. Græc. Curcellai. k text in the New Testament, by the great num- The text is formed on the second Elzevir edition of 1633, and tions contained in Bishop Walton's Polyglott. To Curcellæus's editions. It has the most judicious selection of the integrity of the text was affected by them, parallel texts ever appended to any edition of the New Testament. ed them under the text, that the reader might the These are placed immediately under the Greek text, and below pare them. To the readings copied from the Lon- them is a selection of various readings, taken from upwards of added those quoted by Curcellæus, and the Bar-100 manuscripts and versions. Prefixed are very useful prolego

These are most beautiful editions, but the second is said to be

d additions. In his edition of the New | rejected a variety of readings, according as they favo ir or oppose opted the emendations proposed by Wet- the Socinian doctrine.

23. Novum Testamentum Græcum, è Codice MS. Alexandrino, qui Londini in Bibliothecà Musei Britannici asservatur, descriptum à Carolo Godofredo WOIDE. Londini, ex prelo Joannis Nichols, typis Jacksonianis, 1786. folio.

ntum, Græce et Latine, Textum denuo nes numquam antea vulgatas collegit -Animadversiones Criticas adjecit, et TTHEI. Riga, 1782-1788. 12 vols. 8vo. This is an elegant fac-simile edition of the Alexandrian Manus recension of manuscripts some account script which is preserved in the British Museum, and is described n Part I. p. 206. of the first volume. "The in Part I. pp. 222-224. of Vol. I. Twelve copies were printed on fessor mingled in his opposition to Gries- vellum. The fac-simile itself fills two hundred and sixty pages: cation, tended greatly to injure the work and the preface, comprising twenty-two pages, contains an accuearance, and to lower the author in the rate description of the Manuscript, illustrated by an engraving nd moderate; but now that the heat of representing the style of writing in various manuscripts. To this down, the value of his labours begins to is subjoined an exact list of all its various readings, in eighty-nine ted, and more impartially appealed to, on pages; each reading is accompanied with a remark, giving an us readings of the Greek text." (Dr. Hen-account of what his predecessors Junius (i. e. Patrick Young), rches, p. 53.) The late Bishop Middleton Bishop Walton, Drs. Mill and Grabe, and Wetstein, had performed the best edition of the Greek Testament or neglected. The preface of Woide, and his collection of various chaelis has criticised it with considerable readings, were reprinted, with notes, by Professor Spohn, at Leips pronounces it to be absolutely necessary sic, in 1790, in 8vo. To complete this publication, there should be ngaged in the criticism of the Greek Tes- added the following: Appendix ad Editionem Novi Testamenti Matthæi undertook a revision of the Greek Græci è Codice Alexandrino descripti à C. G. Woide. Oxonii: è of one set of manuscripts of the Byzantine Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1799. folio. This splendid work was regrets that he made so partial an applica- edited by the Rev. Dr. Ford, who added many useful notes. Long erials. "And since no impartial judge can before Dr. Woide executed his fac-simile edition of the New Testext of the Greek Testament may be estatament from the Alexandrian Manuscript, it had been suggested to lying only a part of our materials, as by a King Charles I. to cause a fac-simile of the entire MS. to be engraved. of the whole, the edition of Matthæi is only But the importance and value of such an undertaking do not appear it furnishes new materials for future uses; to have been understood-at least they were not duly appreciated— ch are accompanied with much useful infor- by that monarch: he therefore refused to have it done. The cirrned remarks." (Bishop Marsh's Lectures, cumstance is thus related by the industrious antiquary Aubrey, in his inedited" Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme." preserved mentum Græce. Ad Codices Mosquenses among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum, No. 231. folio - S.S. Synodi et Tabularii, Imperialis, item 169. Writing on the disputed clause in 1 John v. 7. Aubrey says:ses, Goettingenses, Gothanos, Guelpherby- copies, e. g. that in the Vatican Library, and ye Tecla MS. in St. achienses, Lipsienses, Nicephori et Zittavi- James's Library and others: as it is not in an old MS. in Magdalen -um Græcorum Lectionibus, Editionibus N. Coll: Library in Oxford. That at St. James's was sent as a Presen us et Doctorum Virorum Libellis criticis, to King Charles the First, from Cyrillus Patriark of Constantinople: -tiones majores et minores Eusebii, Euthalii, as a jewel of that antiquity not fitt to be kept amongst Infidels. Mr.. sis notavit, primum quoque nunc Lectiones Rosse (translator of Statius) was Tutor to ye D. of Monu Græcæ Ecclesiæ designavit, ac Synaxaria mouth who made him Library Keeper at St. James's: he desired apostoli addidit, et Criticis interpositis Ani- K. Cha. I. to be at ye chardge to have it engraven in copper plates : it Christianus Fridericus MATTHÆI. Vol. and told him it would cost but £200, but his Maty would not yield ; Vol. II. Curia Variscorum, 1806; Vol. to it. Mr. Ross sayd that it would appeare glorious in History, after his Matys death.' 'Pish,' sayd he, I care not what they 07. 8vo. say of me in History when I am dead.' H. Grotius, J. G. Vossius, Heinsius, &c. have made Journeys into England, purposely to correet their Greeke Testaments by this Copy in St. James. _Sr. Chr. Wren sayd that he would rather have it engraved by an Engraver that could not understand or read Greek, than by one that did."

on of Matthæi's Greek Testament is seldom to y of the first volume is in the library of the he critical annotations of the editor are placed lume; the various readings are at the foot of i is very severe on the editorial labours of Dr.

"The last clause of this verse is not found in the antient MSS.

gott him the place [of]

In the reign of Charles II. the design of printing this manuscript was resumed; and the editing of the fac-simile was to have been AJAOHKн. The New Testament collated confided to the Rev. Dr. Smith, to whom the king promised a oved manuscripts; with select notes in Eng-canonry of Windsor, or of Westminster, for his labour. But, from some circumstance or other which cannot now be ascertained, this xplanatory, and references to those authors design was abandoned. (Wood's Athene Oxoniensis, vol. ii col rated the sacred writings. By Edward HAR-1020.)

n, 1776, 2 vols. 12mo.; 1784, 2 vols. 12mo. The value of such an undertaking has been better understood in vs the learned annotator of Michaelis, "is cerour times: and the British Parliament nobly guaranteed the expense lace among the critical editions of the Greek of the Fac-simile Edition, which was executed under the editorship it is not accompanied with various readings; of the Rev. H. H. Baber. See an account of it in No. 17. p. 24. wood has adopted the common text as the basis infra. ade critical corrections wherever the received him to be erroneous. The manuscripts which lowed when he departs from the common text, isis in the Gospels and Acts, and the Claromons of St. Paul." These Dr. Harwood considered nearest of any manuscripts now known in the This edition differs entirely from those of Mill, Wetstein, and il tett of the sacred records. "It is not improGriesbach. "The text of this edition is neither the common text not ion contains more of the ancient and genuine a revision of it, but a mere copy from a single manuscript, and that estament than those which are in common use: not a very ancient one (the Codex Lambecii I.), in the imperial anuscript, however ancient and venerable, is library at Vienna. The various readings, which are not arranged reference as to exclude the rest, and no critic as in other editions, but printed in separate parcels as made by the can adopt a new reading, unless the general collator, are likewise described from Greek manuscripts in the ced, and the preponderancy in its favour dis- imperial library: and the whole collection was augmented by learned and ingenious editor has in some meaextracts from the Coptic, Sclavonian, and Latin versions, which xn object, and rendered his labours less applica- are also printed in the same indigested manner as the Greek readof sacred criticism." (Bishop Marsh's Michae-ings. Alter's edition therefore contains mere materials for future p. 884, 885.) At the end of the second volume uses." (Bp. Marsh's Lectures, part ii. p. 32.) Where the editor has e of the principal editions of the Greek Testa- discovered manifest errata in the Vienna manuscript, he has f the most esteemed commentators and critics. recourse to the text of Stephens's edition of 1546.-See a more neatly printed; and under the Greek text are copious account of this edition in Michaelis, vol. ii. pp. 880-882, in English, chiefly relating to classical illustra- where it is said that Alter's edition is a work with which no one In the list of commentators and critics, those are engaged in sacred criticism can dispense. by Dr. Harwood who favour the Socinian scheme, strongly attached, and he therefore admitted or first edition of the New Testament should, in stricte; but as it is superseded by his second and greatly lescribed in the next two pages, it is here designedly in of Koppe, being accompanied with a commentary,

24. Novum Testamentum Græcum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Græcè expressum: Varietatem Lectionis addidit Franciscu Carolus ALTER. 1786, 1787. 2 vols. 8vo.

ong the commentators on the New Testament.

25. Quatuor Evangelia, Græcè, cum Variantibus a textu Lectionibus Codd. Manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Vaticana; Barberinæ, Laurentianæ, Vindobonensis, Escurialensis, Havniensis, Regiæ; quibus accedunt Lectiones Versionum Syrarum Veteris, Philoxenianæ, et Hierosolymitanæ, jussu et sumptibus regiis edidit Andreas BIRCH. Havnia, 1788. folio et 4to.

Londini et Hale Saxonum, 1796

Editio secunda.

Notwithstanding the different opinions entertained by some learned men relative to the correctness of Dr. Griesbach's system of recensions or editions of manuscripts, all parties have unded in commendation of the learning, diligence, and labour which he bestowed upon his arduous undertaking.

This splendid and valuable work, containing only the four Gos- | D. Jo. Jac. GRIESBACH. pels, is the result of the united labours of Professors Birch, Adler, 1806. 2 vols. large 8vo. and Moldenhawer, who for several years travelled into Germany, Italy, France, and Spain, at the expense of the king of Denmark, in order to examine and collate the precious remains of sacred antiquity. Birch collated all the Greek manuscripts quoted, except those in the library of the Escurial, which were collated by Moldenhawer. The Syriac collations were made by Adler. A detailed account of these manuscripts is given in the Prolegomena; from Dr. Griesbach commenced his critical labours, first, by publ which we learn that the manuscripts which passed under his ing at Halle, in 1774, the historical books of the New Testament inspection were very numerous. In the Vatican, forty were col- under the following title: Libri Historici Novi Testamenti, Grem lated; in the Barberini library, ten; in other Roman libraries, seven-Pars i. sistens Synopsin Evangeliorum Matthæi, Marci, et Lan teen; in the libraries at Florence, and in other parts of Italy, thirty- Textum ad fidem Codd. Versionum et Patrum emendavit et lectio's eight; in the imperial library at Vienna, twelve; and in the royal varietatem adjeci Jo. Jac. Griesbach. (2d edit. Hala, 1797, 3d ed library at Copenhagen, three. The text is from Robert Stephens's Hale, 1809,) 8vo. pars ii. sistens Evangelium Johannis et Aca edition of 1550; but the great value of this splendid work, and in Apostolorum, Hale, 1775, 8vo. This edition was published an which it surpasses all former editions, consists, first, in the very manual or text-book for a course of lectures which Professor complete extracts which are given from the celebrated Coder Vati- Griesbach was at that time delivering at Jena, and in which be canus, described in pp. 224-226. of the first volume; and, secondly, explained the first three evangelists synoptically, that is to say b in the extracts from the Versio Syra Hyerosolymitana, which is uniting together the three narrations of the same event. The remarkable for its agreement with the Codex Beza, where it is ceived text, which is adopted, is divided into one hundred and wholly unsupported by any other authority; a circumstance which thirty-four sections, and is printed in three columns; and Griesba shows the value and antiquity, not so much of the manuscripts indicated by various marks the alterations which he judged neces themselves, as of the text which they contain. sary to be made. The various readings, taken from the edition of In 1798, Professor Birch published, at Copenhagen, a collection Mill, Bengel, and Wetstein, were not chosen until they had unde, of various readings to the Acts and Epistles, drawn from the same gone a very severe revision; but this edition also contained othe sources; intituled Varie Lectiones ad textum Actorum Apostolorum, lections, which the learned editor found in manuscripts preserved Epistolarum Catholicarum et Pauli, e Codd. Græcis MSS. Biblio- in the British Museum at London, and also in the Royal Litrary theca Vaticana, Barberina, Augustinianorum Eremitarum Roma, at Paris. In 1775, Dr. Griesbach published the Apostolical Epistles Borgiana Velitris, Neapolitana Regia, Laurentiniana, S. Marci and the Apocalypse, in a similar manner; but as many perses Venetorum Vindobonensis Casarea, et Hafniensis Regia, collectæ et had expressed themselves dissatisfied with his synoptical arrange edita ab Andrea Birch, Theol. D. et Prof.; in 1800, he published ment of the historical books, he printed another edition of them Varia Lectiones ad Apocalypsin: and in 1801, Varia Lectionis ad 1777, in the usual order. This volume forms the first part of b Textum IV. Evangeliorum e Codd. MSS. iterum recognitæ et quam- first edition, of which the Epistles and Revelation, printed in 173 plurimis accessionibus aucte: all in 8vo. to the four gospels. The are considered as the second part. A few copies were struck a completion of the magnificent edition of the Greek Testament, in 4to., which are both scarce and dear. This edition is of a ver begun in 1788, was prevented by a calamitous fire at Copenhagen, convenient and portable size, and was that principally used in t which consumed the royal printing office, together with the beau- Universities of Germany. Dr. Hales prefers it to the second s tiful types and paper, which had been procured from Italy, for tion, because he thinks that Griesbach was at that time more sc that purpose. pulous of innovating upon the text than he afterwards was octavo, with the imprint of Londini et Hala Saronum in the ti The first volume of the second edition appeared in 1796, in la page; and the second with that of Hale Saxonum et Loadin account of the expense of the paper of the fine copies having bee munificently defrayed by his Grace the late Duke of Grafton, at time Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. These are mo beautiful books, and are now only procurable at a very high price, though, through his Grace's liberality, they were originally we believe, at twelve or fourteen shillings per volume. Fer copies are said to have been struck off on large paper in qua But the whole of these two volumes was printed at Jena, en bited in Griesbach's first edition, he collated all the Latin Ver Griesbach's own eye. In addition to the various readings exte published by Sabatier and Blanchini; and corrected the al made by Mill, Bengel, and Wetstein, in their quotations frate oriental versions. He also inserted the principal readings colensed by Matthæi, Birch, and Alter; together with extracts from the w Wolfenbuttel manuscripts collated by Knittel, and the read rad the Sahidic version, furnished by Woide, Georgi and Münter. Übe Armenian version a collation was made for him by M. Bredenke of Bremen: and the Sclavonic version was collated for him by M Dobrowsky at Prague.

26. XIII. Epistolarum Pauli Codex Græcus, cum Versione Latina vetere, vulgo Ante-Hieronymianâ, olim Boernerianus, nunc Bibliotheca Electoralis Dresdensis, summâ fide et diligentiâ transcriptus et editus á C. F. MATTHEI. Meissæ, 1791 (reprinted in 1818); 4to.

Of the Codex Boernerianus, of which manuscript this publication is a copy, an account has been given in the first volume of this work. The transcript is said to be executed with great accuracy, and is illustrated with two plates.

27. Codex Theodori Beze Cantabrigiensis, Evangelia et Acta Apostolorum complectens, quadratis literis, Græco-Latinus. Academia auspicante venerandæ has vetustatis reliquias, summâ qua fide potuit, adumbravit, expressit, edidit, codicis historiam præfixit, notasque adjecit, Thomas KIPLING, S.T.P. Coll. Div. Joan. nuper socius. Cantabrigiæ, e Prelo Academico, impensis

Academiæ. 1793. 2 vols. folio.

Griesbach in executing this second edition, together with the ra cipal rules for judging of various readings. The text is printed i two columns, the numbers of the verses being placed in the argin, below which are the various lections.

This fac-simile of the Codex Beza (which manuscript has already been described) is executed with the utmost typographical splendour. In a preface of twenty-eight pages, the learned editor dis- The first volume contains the four Gospels. To these are pe cusses the high antiquity of the manuscript; its nature and excel- fixed copious prolegomena, exhibiting a critical history of the pred lence; its migrations; the various collations of it which have been text, a catalogue of all the manuscripts from which various made at different times; and concludes with a very brief descrip-ings are quoted, and an account of the method pursued tion of the manuscript itself, and an Index Capitum. To this succeeds the text of the manuscript, which is divided into two parts or volumes; the first ending with page 412., and the second containing pages 413. to 828. Opposite to the modern supplement, which concludes the Gospels, on page 657., is the end of the Latin version of Saint John's third Epistle. Pages 829. to 854. contain Dr. Kipling's notes. The impression of this fac-simile was limited to two hundred and fifty copies; and it usually sells for six or eight guineas, according to the condition and binding of the copies. Dr. Kipling's fac-simile was criticised, with great severity, in the Monthly Review (N. S.), vol. xii. pp. 241-246. And his preface was attacked, in no very courteous manner, in a pamphlet entitled Remarks on Dr. Kipling's Preface to Beza. Part the First. By Thomas Edwards, LL.D.' 8vo. 1793. No second part ever appeared.

Although the execution of this noble undertaking did not answer the expectations of some learned men, in consequence of which it was held in comparatively little estimation for many years, yet its value is now more justly appreciated. "A critic of the first celebrity, who would have gladly seized an opportunity of exposing Dr. Kipling, was unable to detect the smallest error in the text. Porson himself collated the printed copy with the original manuscript, and the only fault he could detect was in a single letter of the margin. This fact must surely place the value of Dr. Kipling's publication far beyond the reach of controversy." (Brit. Crit. vol. xi. p. 619.)

28. Novum Testamentum Græcè Textum ad fidem Codicum Versionum et Patrum recensuit et Lectionis Varietatem adjecit

The second volume contains the remaining books of the New Testament, which is preceded by an introduction or pe accounting for the delay of its appearance, and an account of 2 manuscripts consulted for that volume. At the end are forty per separately numbered, consisting of a Diatribe on the dispe clause relative to the three witnesses in 1 John v. 7, 8, 1 additional various readings to the Acts of the Apostles, and Sa Paul's Epistles, with two pages of corrections. Griesbach's sect edition was reprinted at London in 1809, in two elegant volumes; one by Mr. Collingwood of Oxford, and the other by Mr. R. Taylor; the text is printed in long lines, and the pas columns, and Griesbach's addenda of various readings are i in their proper places. A very few inaccuracies have be covered in these insertions, which perhaps could hardly be quede in a work of such minuteness. This edition, which consisted one thousand copies, having been exhausted, a second Lot edition issued from the press of Messrs. R. & A. Taylor, volumes, 8vo. 1818. It is executed in the same handsome fa before, and possesses some advantages even over Griesbach's second edition. In the first place, the addenda of various less above noticed have been newly collated, and inserted in th various places with great accuracy. Secondly, the reading of Ac xx. 28. in the Vatican manuscript (which Griesbach coul give, in consequence of Professor Birch, who collated it, hay lost or mislaid his memorandum of that particular text) is here

ript obtained by Mr. R. Taylor from the | by Dr. Woide, the Cambridge Manuscript edited by Dr. Kipling, library. The reading of the clause in ques- and the Latin Manuscript edited by Sabatier and Blanchini; to canus is thus determined to be conformable which he added a collation of the celebrated Codex Vaticanus from Textus Receptus, viz. Tv Exxxo T, the papers of Dr. Bentley, printed at Oxford in 1799, in the Appendix nd, lastly, as Griesbach, in his Leipsic edi- to Dr. Woide's edition of the Alexandrian MS., which was unsome readings different from those adopted known to Griesbach, and which in many instances differs from -1806, a Synoptical Table is given indicating Dr. Birch's readings collated from the same manuscripts. op Marsh has given a high character of the 2. Dr. Barrett's splendid fac-simile of the Codex Rescriptus of ch, in his Divinity Lectures, part ii. pp. 44, part of Saint Matthew's Gospel published at Dublin in 1801, and es on them in Dr. Hales's Treatise on Faith here noted by the letter Z. l. ii. pp. 61-64. In 1830, Mr. J. G. Palfrey, Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, "The e common version, conformed to Griesbach's This is a successful endeavour to exhibit reader the results of Griesbach's critical Text of the New Testament. The text of h version is reprinted without note or comre in no case altered, except where a change required it, that is, in conformity to the reek text made by Dr. Griesbach. In the e editor has introduced, to correspond with e states that, "it has been his careful endeayle of the received version, and no one has t study and consideration." [Preface, p. viii.] of different parts of Mr. Palfrey's volume, ges is enabled to state that he has not observed he principles by which Mr. P. professes to bach's edition of the New Testament there following publications:

am Textus Græci Epistolarum Paulinarum.
e, ad supplendas et corrigendas variarum
lectiones. Accedit multorum N. T. Codicum
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ains the text, together with a selection of the adings, and an extract from the Prolegomena 1. It is very neatly printed, and forms a valustant reference. This is the edition now chiefly ties of Germany. The Anglo-American edition e is handsomely executed; and the typography opies is very beautiful. The reprints at Glasand London, are also neatly executed. tamentum Græcè. Textum ad Fidem Codi: Patrum recensuit, et Lectionis Varietatem Griesbach. Volumen I., Quatuor Evangelia ionem tertiam emendatam et auctam curavit Berolini, 1827, 8vo.

f Dr. Griesbach's revision of the Greek text of at having become necessary, the task of editing ional various readings as have been discovered hat distinguished critic's last labours, was con, who has executed it in the following manner: he procured and collated the various printed iesbach had made use in preparing his edition, ious critical materials which the researches of discovered within the last thirty years; that is, he first volume of his second edition, in 1796. oceeded to correct all the typographical errors he he expunged a great number of stops, especially e says) had been unnecessarily introduced by I which in many instances only tended to obscure He has also deviated in very many places from of placing certain accents, and has made various he spelling of certain words.

ary steps having been taken, Dr. Schulz collated al authorities cited by Griesbach, to which he cess, and noticed in what respects they differed of former editors. He then inserted readings anuscripts and versions, which had hitherto been n or altogether neglected. More particularly, he drian Manuscript of the New Testament edited

3. The entire collation of the Codex Cyprius, made and described by Dr. Augustine Scholz, and printed in pp. 80-90 of his Curc Critice in Historiam Textus IV. Evangeliorum, but very inaccurately, in consequence of Dr. S.'s absence on his biblico-critical travels, so that he could not personally edit his collation of the Codex Cyprius. (Scholzii Nov. Test. vol. i. p. xl.) The possessor of Dr. Schulz's edition of the Greek Testament must therefore place no dependence upon the readings of the Codex Cyprius, as exhibited by him. Further, he has selected from Dr. Scholz's Biblische-Kritische Reise (Biblico-critical Travels) the various readings contained in certain MSS. preserved in the Royal Library at Paris, which he has noted by the numbers 240, 241, 242, 243, and 244. To these are added the principal various readings from

4. The Codex Rehdigeranus, containing a Latin Ante-Hieronymian Version of the four Gospels, written in the seventh or eighth century, which the editor had himself transcribed in the year 1813. 5. The Codex Messanensis I. of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, in quarto, inspected by Munter; of which an account is given in Dr. Birch's prolegomena ad Varr. Lectt. Evv. p. xciii. et seq. This MS. is numbered 237. by Dr. Schulz.

6. The Codex Syracusanus in the Landolini Library, which was also inspected by Dr. Munter, and which is described by Birch, p. xcvi. et seq. This is numbered 238.

7. The Berlin Manuscript of the four Gospels, of the eleventh century, of which a description was published by Pappelbaum in 1823. It is numbered 239.

8. The Codex Gronovianus 131., a manuscript of the four Gospels collated by Dermout in his Collectanea Critica in Novum Testamentum, part i. (Lugd. Bat. 1825): this is numbered 245.

9. The Codex Meermannianus, containing the four Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of James, Peter, 1 John, and a fragment of the epistle to the Romans, also collated by Dermout: this is numbered 246.

10. The readings of the Gothic Version, from Zahn's correct edition published in 1805, and the new readings contained in the fragments of this version first published by Mai in 1819, together with the fragments of the Sahidic Version published in the Appendix to Woide's fac-simile of the Codex Alexandrinus, and the frag ments of the Basmurico-Coptic Version edited by Engelbreth in 1811. Dr. Schulz has also enriched his edition with many valuable notes ten by C. Benedict Michaelis, in his own copy of Kuster's edition relative to the Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Ethiopic versions, writof the New Testament, which is now deposited in the Library of the Orphan House at Halle. Further, Dr. S. had constantly open before him the more valuable critical editions of the New Testament, as well as other works which might afford him any assistance, (two editions), and Knappe, and also Griesbach's edition printed at including the editions of Stephens, Mill, Wetstein, Birch, Matthæi Leipsic in 1809, which differs from his own second edition in very many respects; but which exhibits that form and condition of the sacred text which in his latter years and maturest judgment Dr. Griesbach deemed to be true and correct. The readings peculiar to these later editions have been diligently noted.

The Symbole Critica and other works of Griesbach mentioned in the preceding column, together with the critical publications of Gersdorf, Bode, Bowyer, Valckenaer, and Wassenberg, were in like manner constantly at hand; and in doubtful or more impor tant cases, the best editions of the most valuable of the Fathers were consulted.

The typographical execution of this edition is much more commodious than that of Griesbach's second edition. There, the text was printed in two columns, and the notes were printed in a mass in long lines, with the notation of chapters and verses in the margin, which rendered it perplexing to the eye to compare the various readings therein contained. In Dr. Schulz's third edition the text is printed in long lines, and the notes are very distinctly exhibited in two columns, each note forming a distinct paragraph. The convenience thus afforded in consulting the work is very great. Besides the editor's preface, and the corrected preface of Griesbach (which is enlarged in the catalogue of MSS.), the volume now published contains the four Gospels: at the end there are eighteen closely-printed pages of addenda, which ought to be carefully transcribed and inserted in their proper places before the book can be advantageously consulted: these addenda have principally been caused by the acquisition of many hundreds of various readings, obtained from M. Dermout's Collectanea Critica in Novum Testatamentum (of which an account will be found in a subsequent page), and which did not come into Dr. Schulz's possession until after the present volume was finished. Such additions are unavoidable in a work embracing so many thousand minute references and figures; and every candid scholar will readily extend to such a laborious undertaking as the present, the liberal apology offered by Bishop Marsh for Wetstein:-"That mistakes and oversights are discoverable in the work, detracts not from its general merits. No work is without them; and least of all can consummate accuracy