The Revision Revised by Burgon John William

Author:Burgon, John William [Burgon, John William]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Published: 2011-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

LI. But enough of this. We really have at last, (be it observed,) reached the end of our enquiry. Nothing comes after Dr. Hort's extravagant and unsupported estimate of Codices b and א. On the contrary. Those two documents are caused to cast their sombre shadows a long way ahead, and to darken all our future. Dr. Hort takes leave of the subject with the announcement that, whatever uncertainty may attach to the evidence for particular readings,

“ The general course of future Criticism must be shaped by the happy circumstance that the fourth century has bequeathed to us two MSS. [ b and א], of which even the less incorrupt [א] must have been of exceptional purity among its contemporaries: and which rise into greater pre-eminence of character the better the early history of the Text becomes known.”—(p. 287.)

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