A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II.

Chapter 36: Chapter XII. Application Of The Foregoing Materials And Principles To The Criticism Of Select Passages Of The New Testament.

By Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

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An extended manual presents principles and materials of New Testament textual criticism, surveying ancient versions (Syriac, Latin, Coptic, Gothic, Ethiopic and others), their value and limits, and the evidence provided by Church Fathers' citations. It reviews printed and critical editions, internal and historical evidence, comparative approaches, and peculiarities of the Greek Testament dialect, then applies these methods to selected passages. Appendices address Syriac lectionaries and additional Bohairic manuscripts, while editorial notes discuss manuscript age, provenance, and the interpretive role of translations. Throughout it balances how versions can confirm or complicate manuscript readings, and offers practical guidance for biblical students engaged in textual collation.

Chapter XII. Application Of The Foregoing Materials And Principles To The Criticism Of Select Passages Of The New Testament.

In applying to the revision of the sacred text the diplomatic materials and critical principles it has been the purpose of the preceding pages to describe, we have selected the few passages we have room to examine, chiefly in consideration of their actual importance, occasionally also with the design of illustrating by pertinent examples the canons of internal evidence and the laws of Comparative Criticism. It will be convenient to discuss these passages in the order they occupy in the volume of the New Testament: that which stands first affords a conspicuous instance of undue and misplaced subjectivity.