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    $ s the eflp ^ n ejice the late prim ^ ta oi _ I ^ lawa ^ P * ft biblical scholar , is 9 Imost universally admitted . Nor can I be of opinion , that t £ e ediU ) i $ wqyld fy ^ ve acted wisely < or faone&tly in civopsing for the ground-plot of their labours ^ a translation whiph ^ yas made of necessity frQ # j 4 corrupt ajid defective text . That the /»? -.

    pro v ed Versipn i $ poit ta ^ ore .. Jifce that jmhH $ hf 4 hy authority , # p tpan ' . c ^ n ratianaUy iajg en t , who looks upo&rthe idevji&tiof ^ £ s justified by q , regard tq precision ^ fa , i £ iifiilness and parity *

    1 he general excellence of Newcomers translation is & fact of uhieh thpse pte ^ s ^ a ^ dp apt seem to be a $ v a | : e , who GOB ^ plain that an entirely new version was not

    attempted instead of an improved one . 1 suspect , indeed , that the ^ obj ectors are very imperfectly acquainted with the difficulties af such ; an undertaking .

    Your reviewer properly begins with some observations on . the text , employed by th& editors . And , for the most part , 1 . cannot question the justness jof his strictures under this head . I certainly

    wish , that we had been distinctly informed what text is used , and that ample and satisfactory sea * sons had been given for every departure from that of Griesbachi It

    is , the subject , hxwevjer , of . grateful reflection , that tiie editors hwe availed themselves so largely of the diligence apd sagacity of this learned man . For an additional

    proof that the preference , avowed , < m almost every occasion , by Unitarian critics for Giria $ bach ' s text , does not arise from their theola *

    ? I « trod r Ac , ( Marsh ) Vol . i . fp . 133 % X 34 >

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    gical prepossessions , I will c refer tq Matt . xi ^ c . 17 . a 6 it stands m the Improyeid Version and inCrieisr bach . I further styhscribe to most of the reviewer ' s sentiments on the

    subject of critical conjecture , and the impropriety of admittipg it into the formation of the text of the Nes ^ Testament * At t ^ e sam e tin ) e ' : it ought to be recollected ^

    that we are to judge ctf u the pre * ponderating evidence of MSS / not so much by the number af them , as by their age and character . In some instances , ( as Matt *

    x .-8- xxiii . 14 , ) the editors apw pear to . feiave icon ten ted themselves witji the text in Grie&bach ^ s fprmer ( edition , and with sufficient closeaess to have followed Newcome , who tr ^ nsl ^ ted from that edition .

    VqI . iv , p * 156 . The worda in Mar . ii . 25- in , the days of Abiath ^ r the hisb priest ? ' -they are not , I think , justified ip

    omitting . Michaelis has suggesti * ed what I take to be a very pro * bable explanation of the meaning <> f this clause , on which he says ^ * * many useless disputes have been wasted . " *

    P . 158 . InEphes . iv . 29 * bath editions of Griesbach have the reading j £ § eioc $ . P . 216 . I fully concur with the reviewer as ty > th ^ e impropriety of printing 2 Peter ii . in Italics .

    Ib , 217 . He atates the number of altefations actually ipaUe in Newconje $ , s amoumiog tp afcowt 75 Qi but adds , that maay Qt theiu ^ rje in c ^ ses of tre , qM / ent Qcqi ^ rren c . e . ; ( C on ^ eqme ^ itly , t ^« whole a umber must be much r $ «

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    of Ejlimaf ^ Stmcturps on ImprovedVerswn . l \ f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/13/