Excerpt from The British Critic, Vol. 5: For January, February, March, April, May, June, 1816 Thus far the editors of the New Testament, in revising the sa. Cred text, followed no settled plan of emendatory criticism. Having chosen from among the manuscripts with which they were provided, one copy, which appeared to them of the highest authority, they committed it to print with little alteration. The sphere of critical enquiry was however enlarged under Robert Stephens. By the publication of an edition, containing a colla tion of fifteen mss. And the Complutensian edition, which were annexed as marginal notes to the text of Erasmus, reprinted by Stephens with a very few corrections adopted from the edition of Complutum. The mss. Which were used in forming this collation are likewise extant, having been discovered by Father Le Long in the Royal library at Paris but it appears, on a com parison of the written and printed authorities, that the various readings have been collected with little accuracy. In this edition likewise the text of the heavenly witnesses is inserted; and an error in placing a note of reference to the margin has given rise to an opinion that this long-contested verse stands in Ste phens's text, supported by manuscript authority. This notion however, if it now prevails, rests solely with those who would substitute their wishes for fact; the typographicalerror in Ste phens's text having been demonstrated by the present Margaret Professor to the satisfaction of every unprejudiced reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.