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    • 228 The Reviewer of I. V. on his Review.

      228 The Reviewer of I. V. on his Review.

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      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      not of censure : but as it respects the future , I d © earnestly hope , that the matter will be very fully

      weighed , before it is determined to print other editions of tho 1 . V . without making such alterations as will reduce it to Griesbaeh ' s text . The Editor , indeed , seems to intimate , that this cannot be

      done : without the sacrifice of their main object . If this be not his meaning , perhaps my remarks are altogether irrelevant ; if it be , I wish to suggest the following considerations .

      In order to reduce the I . V . to Gri . es . bac ' hVtext , it would not be necessary to pursue the latter 44 into all its minutiae of words , letters , and points / ' ' - As to the

      punctuation , that ? of course , must rest with the judgment and learning of the Editors : Gnesbach ' s opinion , indeed , must have weight ; but here his critical canons ^ and induction of evidence ^ have no concern . As to the minutiae of

      letters , where they make , no change in the meaning of words , a translation has nothing " to do with them ; if they do , a change of letters is a change of words , and

      it may , and often does produce an important change in the sense . With respect to the minutiae of words * I see no desirable medium

      between followingGriesbach ' s text entirely , or leaving the Received Text for it only where , in the judgment of the Editors , such departure is important . But farther , if we examine the question by reference to particu * lars . we shall find , that to follow

      To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository.

      Griesbach ' s text minutely , would make little change upon the plan already pursued . If my Table is correct , it would be necessary , for this purpose , to omit the brackets ( as they now stand ) in about 11 instances in the Gospel of Matthew ^ —to insert brackets in 6 instances ^ ---to change words

      in 95 —to omit words m . 7 , —to add words in 3 instances , —ancf to insert in brackets one verse which is omitted . * Now . this gospel is

      about an eighth part of the whole N . T . ; and I suppose it , therefore , probable , that , at most , tea times the above changes would reduce the I . V . to GriesOach ' s

      text . If so , I cannot think that such reduction would , in any degree ^ call for the sacrifice of the main object ; and I allow myself to hope , that this statement may remove some of those objections , which seem to weigh so forcibly in the mind of the Editor .

      The whole grounds of my opinion respecting the insertion of doctrinal notes , are stated in p . 386 , & c . If those grounds are

      valid , nay opinion is a just one ; and it would have given me sincere pleasure , if the Editor had , by an examination of them , enabled me to retract the opinion' itself . Of the value of the notes , I do not need to be convinced

      but I cannot yet see the expediency of subjoining them to the translation , for the reasons which I have heretofore stated . I think I cannot be censurable for my remarks on the unnoticed departures of the I . V . from the

      * I go throughout upon the supposition , that no notice is to be taken of Griesbach s mark of somewhat probable omission ;—and that the words to which he prefixes the mark of somewhat probabk addition , should not be inserted . Respecting the last class , seep , 389 , npte .

      228 The Reviewer Of I. V. On His Review.

      228 The Reviewer of I . V . on his Review .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/12/