A guide to the textual criticism of the New Testament - Holy Bible ...

28 YOUTH.
seeking Him, when the seventh verse had made it
clear that
there were three, viz., two of CorneHus' servants and a soldier
who was his constant attendant.^ And in Acts xii. 25,
St. Paul and St. Barnabas are said to have returned from
Jerusalem to Jerusalem, when they were really
going back
from Jerusalem to Antioch. Lastly,—not to make thesj3ecimen
instances too numerous,—the Professors omit, and the
Revisers too, 'the precious verse' (St. Matt. xvii. 21)
*
which declares that this kind goeth not out but by prayer
and fasting,' notwithstanding that only three manuscripts, B
and N and 33, testify by themselves for the omission against
a very host of varied witnesses.^
This servile submission to B, in the face of copious testimony,
may be also seen in their presentment of proper names.
Such are Melitene for Melita, evidently a transcriptional blunder,^
Nazara in two places only for Nazareth,' Beezebul for
Beelzebul,' Joanes for Joannes,^ the uncouth trunks
Koum
and Golgoth,'' and—also a transcriptional mistake—the
singular appellative Titius Justus.^ They have also, with
'
Also Acts xi. II.
^ Dean Burgon, "The Revision Revised," p. 91, 92, supplies these
witnesses.
Omission of verses is very common with these editors.
^ MELITIiHNH202. By eliding the article »'/, and attaching the
first syllable of i^jjcroc to MtX/r??. Acts xxviii. i. See Burgon, "Revision
Revised," p. 177. The letters in the oldest Uncial Manuscripts
had no spaces between them.
**
St. ?klatt. iv. 13
and No^rtpar.
^
E. g. St. Matt. X. 25.
: St. Luke iv. 16. They read elsewhere Na^opjf^
^ Though only due to the scribe of B, /. c. also in the parts of n
written by that scribe. " Introduction," p. 159.
' St. Mark v. 41 : St. Matt, xxvii. :
33 St. Matt. xv. 22 : St. John
xix. 17.
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ONOMATIIOUiiTOU. Insert a second T between the last syl-