Biblical Repertory Author:Charles Hodge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Section m CRITICAL LAWS OF THE BOOKS OP THE NEW TESTAMENT. I. If the origin and nature of the readings of the N. T. be understood, it will be perceived, th... more »at besides the laws, which all interpreters of ancient authors, ought to follow, in examining ancient documents, in selecting from their various readings—in detecting and expunging interpolations, in filling up charms, and restoring depraved passages—there must be others, peculiar to the Sacred Volume. J. JI. ab Elwich Diss. dc recentiorum in Novum Feedus criticc, Vft. 1711. J. C. Klemm Principia Critics; Sacra N. T. Tub. 1746. 4. Jo. Geo. Hichter F.xerc. dc arte critica Scriptune interprete, L. 1750. 4. J. L. Frey Comra. de varr. lectt. N. Test. Has. 1713. C. B. Michaelis Tractatio crit. de var. lectt. N. T. caute colligendia et dijudicanilis, in quo cum de illaruiu causis—turn de cautclis agitur, simulque de codicibus, versionibus antiquis et Patribus partim curiosa, partim utilia af- feruntur, Hal. Magd. 1749. 4. Fr. .Irit. Kiiitteli neue Gedanken von den allgemcinen Schreibfchlera in den Haiidsclir. des N. T. Braunschw. 1755. 4. /. J. Bi-eintiiigeri Uiss. crit. de examine dubie lectionis N. T. rite in- sthueiido, Mus. Helv. XVIII. See also, the works of Semler, H'etstdn, and Grietbach, already frequently referred to. Criticism is divided, although not very properly, into higher and lower, and each into grammatico-historical and conjectural. I. Lower or verbal criticism. See, S. G. Wald diss. de eo, quod incertum est in critica verbali N. T., Regiom. 1795. 4. The general rule is, that the reading which bears, as it were, the impress of the author's hand, and from which it may be seen, how the other readings might easily havearisen, is probably genuine. Hence, it is proper, that eveu the...« less