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The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

PREFACE
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These observations and a large number of inaccuracies shew that he was at the least not posted up to date.

But what will be thought, when attention is drawn to the fact that in a question whether a singular set of quotations from the early Fathers refer to a passage in St.Matthew or the parallel one in St.Luke, the peculiar characteristic of St.Matthew--'them that persecute you'-- is put out of sight, and both passages (taking the lengthened reading of St.Matthew) are represented as having equally only four clauses?
And again, when quotations going on to the succeeding verse in St.Matthew (v.

45) are stated dogmatically to have been wrongly referred by me to that Evangelist?
But as to the details of this point in dispute, I beg to refer our readers to pp.

144-153 of the present volume.

The reviewer appears also to be entirely unacquainted with the history of the phrase [Greek: monogenes Theos] in St.John i.
18, which, as may be read on pp.


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