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A Course of Developed Criticism on Passages of the New Testament Materially Affected by Various Readings is unavailable, but you can change that!

This distinct text offers a textual analysis of the New Testament with a focus on passages whose meanings are significantly affected by variant readings in the manuscript tradition. While the vast majority of alternate readings dealt with in textual criticism consist of largely inconsequential variations such as spelling, the interpretation and exegesis of several passages is notably affected by...

would from their peculiar character especially gather around them matter of this kind. Here it is the business of the critic to exercise discernment and reasoning on the facts which research has in each case brought forward, in order to discriminate the incrustation from the original substance, and the germ amidst the motley growth that overlies it. Corruption may also be the work of wilful tamperings; and what is possible must not be left out of sight by the critic. Whether such a process has been
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