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— — CHAPTER III. HISTORY OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM. Part II. Contemporary Growth. (3) Youth : Lach- MANN and the SEVERAL DOCTORS OF THE EXTREME School. (4) Signs of Maturity : Other Doctors. Widening of the Basis. BUT now came a change. The impetuosity of youth lacked the patience to await a further growth of the Science, and to abstain from drawing conclusions till all the evidence had been gathered out of all quarters, thoroughly examined, sorted, and duly valued. A short and easy method of decision was sought and taken. It was too hard a lot to leave the inheritance of the promised land to a coming generation. If the evidence were too unwieldy to be managed in the mass, some was valuable, and some not at all. Why not select the valuable, and be guided by the verdicts it gave ? So arose the School of Extreme Textualism. I. Lachmann, the celebrated philologist and critic, published with the aid of Philip Buttmann, an edition of tlie New Testament in two volumes, one of which came out in 1842, and the other in 1850, and both of them at Berlin, where he was a professor. His first principle, at which he had hinted in a small edition eleven years before, was to discard
— LACHMANN. the readings of the ' Received Text,' as being in his opinion only about two centuries old ; whereas they conflicted with what he conceived to be better authority. His main object was to restore, according to the design of Bentley, the text of the fourth century, which he supposed had been lost. For this purpose he laid aside all the later manuscripts, and confined himself to the few older ones. He also admitted the earliest Latin versions which existed before St. Jerome effected the Vulgate revision. And lastly, he employed the testimony of a few of the oldest Fathers. Thus in the Gospels he had the guidance of the Alexandrian (A.), the Vatican (B.), the Parisian (C), and four fragments,' besides an occasional use of the Cambridge manuscript (D) :—the old Italian manuscript in Latin: and the quotations of St. Irenaeus, St. Cyprian, Origen, Lucifer, and Hilary. He made a clean sweep of all the rest,—a very satisfactory process as far as easiness of revision was concerned,—choosing a 'voluntary' and comfortable ' poverty ' of materials, with a haughty disregard of the earnest labours of his predecessors." Of his manuscripts, only one, the Vatican B, really conducted him into the fourth century, and of that he could then use only imperfect collations. The most important part of his work has been considered to be the toil which he expended upon the old Latin texts, and his vindication of their critical value, though that is not now held to be quite so high as his estimate would make it. 2. Lachmann was succeeded by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, whose labours were much more prolific. Brought up ' P, Q, T, Z. ^ Scrivener, "Plain Introduction," pp. 478, 9. Tregelles, "Printed Text," p. 104.
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