The Causes Of Corruption Of The Text Of The Holy Gospels

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Chapter XI. The Later Uncials And The Cursives. § 1288 .

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The nature of Tradition is very imperfectly understood in many quarters; and mistakes respecting it lie close to the root, if they are not themselves the root, of the chief errors in Textual Criticism. We must therefore devote some space to a brief explanation of this important element in our present inquiry. Tradition is commonly likened to a stream which, as is taken for granted, contracts pollution in its course the further it goes. Purity is supposed to be attainable only within the neighbourhood of the source: and it is assumed that distance from thence ensures proportionally either greater purity or more corruption. Without doubt there is much truth in this comparison: only, as in the case of nearly all comparisons there are limits to the resemblance, and other features and aspects are not therein connoted, which are essentially bound up with the subject believed to be illustrated on all points in this similitude. In the first place, the traditional presentment of the New Testament is not like a single stream, but resembles rather a great number of streams of which many have remained pure, but some have been corrupted. One cluster of bad streams was found in the West, and, as is most probable, the source of very many of them was in Syria: another occurred in the East with Alexandria 288

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Appendix VIII. New Editions Of The Peshitto-Syriac And The Harkleian-Syriac Versions

2min
pages 338-339

Appendix VII. The Last Twelve Verses Of St. Mark's Gospel

16min
pages 329-337

Appendix VI. The Peshitto And Curetonian

9min
pages 322-328

Appendix IV. St. Mark i. 1

14min
pages 309-316

Appendix III. The Rich Young Man

39min
pages 287-308

Appendix V. The Sceptical Character Of B And

6min
pages 317-321

Appendix II. Læø¬—Vinegar

10min
pages 280-286

Appendix I. Honeycomb— ¿x ºµª wø £wø

24min
pages 266-279

Chapter XII. Conclusion

27min
pages 250-265

Chapter XI. The Later Uncials And The Cursives

45min
pages 223-249

Chapter IX. The Old Uncials. The Influence Of Origen

24min
pages 184-197

Chapter VIII. Alexandria and Caesarea

18min
pages 172-183

Chapter VI. The Antiquity Of The Traditional Text. II. Witness of the Early Syriac Versions

21min
pages 146-157

Chapter IV. The Vatican And Sinaitic Manuscripts

38min
pages 83-104

Chapter VII. The Antiquity Of The Traditional Text. III. Witness of the Western or Syrio-Low-Latin Text

20min
pages 158-171

Chapter II. Principles

34min
pages 35-54

Chapter III. The Seven Notes Of Truth

47min
pages 55-82

Chapter I. Preliminary Grounds

22min
pages 21-34

Preface

12min
pages 8-15

Introduction

7min
pages 16-20
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