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TEXTUAL CRITICISM

APPLIED TO THE

NEW TESTAMENT

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31 JAN 85

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PREFACE.

IN the first edition of these 'Outlines,' published in 1872, I was obliged to complain that there was no book at that time which served well as a first introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, in the state to which the science had then advanced. There is no ground for such a complaint now. Dr. Scrivener's indispensable 'Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament' has reached a third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. The longpromised edition of the Greek Testament by Drs. Westcott and Hort appeared in 1881, with an Introduction containing a complete and compact system of Textual Criticism, which, whether destined to be accepted en bloc or not, must certainly make an epoch in the history of the science. And the First Part of the Prolegomena to the eighth edition of Tischendorf's Greek Testament, compiled by Dr. Caspar R. Gregory, with some help from the late Professor Ezra Abbot, has just appeared. Moreover a great deal of attention has been attracted to this study by the publication of the Revised Version of the English New Testament, which was founded upon a Revision of the Greek Text, so that questions which were once uncared for by, and almost unknown to, the English public have now become comparatively familiar, at least in name. The attack upon and defence of the principles of this Revision have produced quite a literature upon the subject, in which the student will find abundance of material to exercise his critical powers upon.

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