15/97 D [is a document of so much importance as occasionally to outweigh almost by itself the other copies of all ages and countries in Christendom.] Sec. 5. 8, by the choice deliberately made of that place by Dr.Tregelles in order to establish the peculiar theory of Textual Revision which he advocates so strenuously; and which, ever since the days of Griesbach, has it must be confessed enjoyed the absolute confidence of most of the illustrious editors of the New Testament. This is, in fact, the second example on Tregelles' list. |