{"product_id":"2940012387752","title":"AN INQUIRY INTO THE INTEGRITY OF THE GREEK VULGATE OR RECEIVED TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT","description":"ALTHOUGH the art of printing was applied, at an early period, to the purposes of sacred learning; the slow progress which Greek literature made in Europe, from the difficulties of acquiring the Greek language, prevented an edition of the New Testament from being attempted; until a comparatively late period. At nearly a century subsequent to the invention of printing, the Complutensian Polyglot was undertaken, under the patronage of Cardinal Ximenes, which contained the first printed copy of the Greek Testament. From the edition which was then prepared for publication, the subsequent editors varied little. Erasmus, who anticipated the publication of this work by his third edition, formed his fourth on similar principles ; Stephens and Beza adopted his text with scarcely any variation; and Elzevir, in whose edition the Received Text is properly contained, very closely followed the steps of his learned predecessors. \u003cbr\u003eFrom the text, which has thus grown into general use, all those deviations are calculated, which constitute the various readings of the Greek manuscripts. Stephens, in his splendid edition, which forms the basis of the Received Text, had noted a variety of those in his margin; having collated fifteen manuscripts, besides the Complutensian edition, for the purpose of rendering his text more pure and perfect. In the editions of Curcelaeus and Bishop Fell, the number was considerably augmented from a collation of additional manuscripts. But in the elaborate edition of Dr. Mills they received an infinitely greater accession; being computed to amount to thirty thousand. The labors of subsequent collators are asserted to have augmented the number with more than an hundred thousand; though on what grounds I am not at present acquainted.","brand":"Textus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069404889328,"sku":"2940012387752","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012387752_p0.jpg?v=1763567881","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012387752","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}