OUTLINES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM APPLIED TO THE NEW TESTAMENT BY C. E. HAMMOND, M. A. Lecturer (late Fellow and Tutor) of Exeter College, Oxford SECOND EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTED Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXVI [All rights reserved] PREFACE. THE following pages have no claim to originality. The substance of them was collected for a course of College Lectures; and they profess to be no more than a compilation from other larger works. The justification of the writer for publishing them, if there be any, lies in the fact that there is not, so far as he is aware, any single book which serves well as a first introduction to the science of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament in its present advanced state. Dr. Tregelles' History of the Printed Text of the New Testament, and Mr. Scrivener's indispensable Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, were published, the one in 1854, the other in 1861. A new edition of Horne and Tregelles' Introduction to the Study of the Bible was published in 1863; the fourth volume of which, on the New Testament, contains a few pages of addenda, with notices of collations and critical publications down to that time; but in other respects it is merely a reprint of the earlier edition of 1856. Since then, however, a good deal has been done, with which the student should be acquainted. These three books, the articles 'New Testament,' 'Versions (Ancient),' and Vulgate,' in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, the Prolegomena to Tischendorf's Greek Testament (seventh edition), and to his editions of the Sinaitic and Vatican Manuscripts, the Prolegomena to Lachmann's Greek Testament, and to Kuenen and Cobet's edition of the Vatican MS., as well as to Dean Alford's last edition of his Greek Testament (vol. i.), and Scrivener's Collation of the Sinaitic MS., are the chief sources from which information has been taken. To such works as these the student must have recourse, if he is led on to wish to fill up much that he will here find sketched in merest outline. To collect into a small compass the leading facts on which the science of Textual Criticism is founded, and to present to the beginner the principles of the science, divested of the repelling mass of detail which necessarily meets |