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    The Reviewer of 1. V. on his Review. 227

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    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

    secondary object ; but as it was not incompatible with the main object of the Editors , the former might have been secured without the neglect of the latter . As to

    the orthography of the I , V . I did myself speak of it ( vol . iv . p . 281 ) as a very subordinate consideration . Respecting the position of the brackets , when their meaning is taken into account , I cannot

    say the saifie . If the use of them be understood to'imply , that- ~ in the judgment of Griesbach the words included in them should probably be ~ " expunged from the text , then , wherever they are

    otherwise used , they cannot but mislead ; and this , as it appears to me , they must do in such passages as I have noticed in pp . 157 , 158 . particularl y 1 Cor . xv . 47 , 158 particularly 1 Cor . xv . 47 .

    , The instances in which they do not correctly represent the judgment of Griesbach , as given in his 2 d edition , are seldom of

    material importance ; but a specific meaning having been assigned to them , it was surely desirable that they should have been employed or omitted , agreeably tq ^ GriesbachV last decision . ^

    The basis of the text of the I . V . is the text of Griesbach ' s 1 st edition ; and the variations from it are principally those which Newcome himself made , and such as are of chief importance in Griesbach ' s 2 d edition . The Editors

    have themselves , in a very few instances , but those of great importance , left Griesbach entirely . On the whole , their text , I imagine , certainly differs from the Received Text , quite as much as that of Griesbach's 2 d edition

    < toes ; and if so , the necessity of critical notes would not have been increased , if they had in all in-

    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

    stances followed the last mentioned text . Indeed , I think it would have been diminished ; for though it might have been desirable , for the sake of those who could not

    consult Griesbach , to have stated the grounds of his alterations in important cases , in all others it would have been sufficient to have been able to state generally , that

    they had uniformly followed a text universally regarded as a standard text by every competent critic . With respect to those instances in which the Editors leave

    Griesbach entirely , it appears to me a matter of much , regret , se * para fee from the general principle , that they have not in all cases given their readers any intimation what the text of Griesbach reall y is . Some very important instances of this omission I have stated in

    p * 158 . And I beg leave to refer the Editors and your readers to the remarks which I made in p . 153 , & c . as furnishing at least some vindication of the sjtress which I have laid on the

    desirableness of uniformly following the text of Griesbach , or , & t least , of assigning the grounds of departing from it , where such departure may appear to the Editors to be required by the evidence , when examined by the acknowledged rules of criticism .

    After the most attentive consi - deration of the Editor ' s letter ^ 1 cannot perceive any reason to doubt of the great desirableness of that plan . I am fully aware of the multiplicity of objects to which the Editors had to direct

    their attention , and of the short space of tiine which was employed to carry the plan into execution ; and , as far as respects the past , my feelings are those of regret ,

    The Reviewer Of 1. V. On His Review. 227

    The Reviewer of 1 . V . on his Review . 227

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/11/