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The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

CHAPTER XII
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from which he printed is without the expression: which is also not found in the Complutensian.

It is certainly a spurious accretion to the inspired Text.
[The attention of the reader is particularly invited to this last paragraph.

The learned Dean has been sneered at for a supposed sentimental and effeminate attachment to the Textus Receptus.

He was always ready to reject words and phrases, which have not adequate support; but he denied the validity of the evidence brought against many texts by the school of Westcott and Hort, and therefore he refused to follow them in their surrender of the passages.] Sec.

3.
Indeed, a great many 'various readings,' so called, are nothing else but very ancient interpretations,--fabricated readings therefore,--of which the value may be estimated by the fact that almost every trace of them has long since disappeared.


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