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

CHAPTER IX
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But strange to say, not only have the Revisers adopted this corrupt reading in the two passages already mentioned, but they have not let so much as a hint fall that any alteration whatsoever has been made by them in the inspired Text.
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Another and a far graver case of 'Attraction' is found in Acts xx.

24.
St.Paul, in his address to the elders of Ephesus, refers to the discouragements he has had to encounter.

'But none of these things move me,' he grandly exclaims, 'neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.' The Greek for this begins [Greek: all' oudenos logon poioumai]: where some second or third century copyist (misled by the preceding genitive) in place of [Greek: logoN] writes [Greek: logoU]; with what calamitous consequence, has been found largely explained elsewhere[229].

Happily, the error survives only in Codd.


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