The Progress Of Doctrine In The New Testament Considered In Eight Lectures Preached Before The University Of Oxford 1864 On The Foundation Of The L PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. NOTE I. Preface. For the customary order of the books of the New Testament in ancient times we may refer to Manuscripts, Catalogues, and Old Versions. The testimony of Manuscripts will be at once exhibited and certified by the following extract from Mr. Scrivener's Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. " It is right to bear in mind that comparatively few copies of the whole [Greek] New Testament remain; the usual practice being to write the four Gospels in one volume, the Acts and Epistles in another: manuscripts of the Apocalypse, which was little used for public worship, being much rarer than those of the other books. Occasionally the Gospels, Acts, and Epistles form a single volume; sometimes the Apocalypse is added to other books The Codex Sinaiticus of-Tischendorf is the more precious, that it happily exhibits the whole New Testament complete: so would the Codices Alexandrinus and Ephraemi, but that they are sadly mutilated. No other uncial copies have this advantage, and very few cursives. In England, only four such are known. .... Besides these Scholz enumerates only nineteen foreign copies of the whole New Testament; but twenty-seven in all out of the whole mass of extant documents. " Whether copies contain the whole or a part of the sacred volume, the general order of the books is the following: Gospels, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles, Apocalypse. A solitary manuscript of the fifteenth century (Venet. 10. Evan. 209) places the Gospels between the Pauline Epistles and the Apocalypse: in the Codices Sinaiticus, Leicestrensis, Fabri (Evan. 90), and Montfortianus, as in the Bodleian Canonici 34, the Pauline Epistles precede the Acts; the Codex Basiliensis (No. 4 of the Epistles), and Lambeth 1182, ...