A manual of Biblical bibliography : comprising a catalogue ... of the principal editions and versions of the Holy Scriptures; together with notices of the principal philologers, critics, and interpreters of the Bible / [Thomas Hartwell Horne].

  • Horne, Thomas Hartwell, 1780-1862
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1839
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    a in oe RN SAYS ey eal Testament, and' the biblical student will do well ‘to procure so valuable and commodious a publication.”*» (On the Classics, vol. i. p. 97.)} 13. Acta. Apostolorum Greco-Latina, Literis Majusculis. E. Codice Laudiano Characteribus uncialibus exarato ct in Bibliotheca Bodleiana ad- servato, descripsit ediditque Tho.. Hzarnius, A. M. Oxoniensis, qui et Symbolum Apostolorum ex eodem. codice subjunxit. Oxonii. E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1715. 8vo. pp. 118— 120, where a fac-simile of the manuscript is given. This is the scarcest of all Mr. Hearne’s publications: the impression was limited to one hundred and twenty copies, at ten shillings each. A copy was sold at the sale of the Rev. Dr. Heath’s library, in 1810, for the sum of thirteen pounds two shillings : it now. adorns the very valuable library of the Writers to the Signet at Edinburgh. There jis another copy in the Library of the British: Museum, 14. The New Testament, in Greek and English, containing the Original Fext, corrected from the authority of. the most authentic Manuscripts, and a new Version, formed agreeably to-the Illustrations of the most learned Commentators and Critics. With Notes and various Readings. [By W. Macr.] London, 1729.. 2 vols. 8vo.. | This is.a beautifully-printed book ; whose editor has altered various passages in conformity with the Arian hypothesis. His arbitrary alterations and bold criticisms were exposed by Dr. Leonard Twells in 4 ‘Critical Examination of the-late’ Néw- Text and’ Version of the Greek Testament. London, 1732, 8vo; Michaelis has also very severely and justly censured the very great liberties taken by-Mace. (Introd. to-N. T. vol. ii. pp- 463, 464.): 15. ‘H KAINH AIAOHKH:. Novum Testamentum.Grecum. Edente Jo. Alberto BenGELiIo. Tubingax, 1734. 4to. 1763. 4to. This is an excellent edition, formed.with an extraordinary degree of conscientiousness, sound judgment, and good taste. John Albert Bengel, or Bengelius, as he is generally called in this country, abbot of Alpirspach in the duchy (present kingdom) of Wirtemburg, was led to direct his attention to sacred criticism, in consequence of serious and anxious doubts. arising. from the deviations exhibited in preceding editions; and the result of his laborious reséarches was, the edition now under consideration. The text is preceded by an Introductio in Crisin Novi Testamenti, and is followed by an Epijogus and Appendix. The text is.not formed on any particular edition, but is corrected,and improved according to the editor’s judgment ; and so scrupulous was Bengel, that he studiously avoided inserting any reading which did not exist in some printed edition, except in.the Apocalypse; in which book alone he inserted readings that had never been printed, because it had been printed from so few manuscripts, and in one passage had been printed by Erasmus from no manu- script whatever. Beneath the text he placed some select readings, reserving the evidence in their favour for his Apparatus Criticus. His opinion of these marginal readings he expressed by the Greek: letters a, 8, y, 5, and e, and some few other marks. Thus, a denotes that he held the reading to be genuine; £8, that its genuineness was not absolutely certain, but that the reading was still preferable to that in the text; , that the reading in the margin was of equal value with that in the text, so that he could not determine which was preterable ; 6, that the reading in the margin was of less value; and ¢, that it was absolutely spurious, though defended. by. some critics. Bengel’s edition was printed, after his death, by Burk, at Tubingen, in 1763, 4to., with important corrections and additions. Several small impres- sions of Bengel’s Greek Testament have been printed in Germany, without the Critical . Apparatus ;. viz. at Stutgard, 1734, 1739, 1753, Svo.; at Tubingen, 1762, 1776, 1790, 8vo. 3 and at Leipsic, 1737, 8vo. A copious and interesting account ef Bengel’s critical edition of the New Testament, and of the reception it met with, is given in Burk’s Memoir of his Life and Writings (pp. 226—-250:); which has been well translated from the German by the Rev.. R. F. Walker, M. A. London, 1837. 8vo. r RE a ee ey 1 In 1720, the celebrated critic, Dr. Richard Bentley, circulated proposals for a new edition of the Greek Testament, with various lections, which was never executed. The pro- posals themselves are printed in the Biographia Britannica (article Bentley, note K.); and the illustrative specimen, Rev. xxii., is given in Pritius’s Introd. ad Lect. Nov. Test. pp. 415—41 9, A detailed account of Bentley’s proposed work is given in Bishop Monk’s Life of Dr. B., whose critical materials for his intended edition of the Greek Testament, amounting to nine- teen volumes, are preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge; but Bentley left nothing in a state of preparation for the press. (Bishop Burgess’s Anniversary Discourse, delivered to the Royal Society of Literature, in 1880, Appendix, p. 62.), VOL. II. AFP. ( B