Brooke Foss Westcott

A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testatment Brooke Foss Westcott

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... Itala as equivalent geographically to Langobardica, see an interesting essav by Rev. J. Kenrick, Thcol. Rev. July, 1874 3 A rough classification of Manuscripts is given in the Dictionary of the Bible, s. v. Vulgate. 4 It will be evident I think that Tertullian has preserved the original text of the African version from a comparison of his readings in the following passages, taken from two books only, with those of the other authorities: Acts iii. 19--21; de Resurr. Cam. n (IV-p-255)---xiii. 46; de Ruga, 6 (ill. p. 183).--xv. 18; de Pudic. 12 (iv. p. 394) Rom. v. 3, 4; c. Cnost. 13 (II. p 383)---vi. 1--13; de Pudic. 17 (IV. p. 414).--vi. 20--23; de Resurr. Cam. 47 (III. p. 303).--vii. 2--6; de Monog. 13 (in. p. 163). His evidence confirmed by existing; documents. tion is often loose, and he frequently exhibits various renderings of the same text, but even in such cases it is not difficult to determine the reading which he found in the current Version from that which he was himself inclined to substitute for it1. We have no means of tracing the history of the Version before the time of Tertullian; but its previous existence is attested by other contemporary evidence. The Latin translation of Irenaeus was probably known to Tertullian"; and the Scriptural quotations which occur in it were evidently taken from some foreign source, and not rendered by the translator3. That this source was no other than a recension of the Vetus Latino, appears from the coincidence of readings which it--viii. 35--39; Gnost. 13 (11. p-3»3)--xi. 33; adv. Hermes. 45 p. 141).--xii. 1; de Resurr. Cam. 47 (III. p. 306).--xii. 10; adv. Marc. V. 14 (I. P-439) The remarkable readings in the other books are equally striking. The Version which Tertullian used was marked by the use o...