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OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
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| (fragg. = fragments) | Select Readings |
Collations | Continuous Texts |
| א all books complete | 1860 | 1862 | |
| B all books exc. part of Heb. Epp. Past., and Apoc. | (1580) | 1788, 1799 | (1857,) 1859, 1867, 1868 |
| A all books | 1657 | 1786 | |
| C fragg. of nearly all books | 1710 | 1751, 2 | 1843 |
| Q fragg. Le. Jo. | (? 1752) | 1762, 1860 | |
| T fragg. Jo. [Lc.] | 1789 | ||
| D Evv. Act. | 1550 | 1657 | 1793, 1864 |
| D2 Paul | (1582) | 1657 | 1852 |
| N fragg. Evv. | (1751) + 1773 + (1830) | 1846, 1876 | |
| P fragg. Evv. | (? 1752) | 1762, 1869 | |
| R fragg. Lc. | 1857 | ||
| Z fragg. Mt. | 1801, 1880 | ||
| [Σ Mt. Mc.] | (1880) | ||
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| L Evv. | 1550 | 1751, 1785 | 1846 |
| Ξ fragg. Lc. | 1861 | ||
| Σ Evv. | 1836 | ||
| G3 Paul exc. Heb. | 1710 | +1791 | |
| E2 Act. | 1715, 1870 | ||
| P2 all books exc. Evv. | 1865 + 1869 |
19. The foregoing outline may suffice to shew the manner in which repeated transcription tends to multiply corruption of texts, and the subsequent mixture of independent texts to confuse alike their sound and their corrupt readings; the reasons why ancient MSS in various ages have been for the most part little preserved and little copied; the disadvantages under which the Greek text of the New Testament was first printed, from late and inferior MSS; the long neglect to take serious measures for amending it; the slow process of the accumulation and study of evidence; the late date at which any considerable number of corrections on
