The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . ived gifts for men. Eph. iv. 8, says, He gave gifts unto men. So Targ., Syr., Ethiop., Arab., and someof the Fathers. The present Heb. is finpb lakachta: the transpositionof the letters explains the difference; npbn chalakta. Isa. lix. 20,unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob is the presentreading. Bat the Versions, and Rom. xi. 26, read that turn trans-gression from Jacob. In both these passages, however, the NewTestament may be intended to give rather the general meaning thanthe words. [See Alford on Rom. xi. 2
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . ived gifts for men. Eph. iv. 8, says, He gave gifts unto men. So Targ., Syr., Ethiop., Arab., and someof the Fathers. The present Heb. is finpb lakachta: the transpositionof the letters explains the difference; npbn chalakta. Isa. lix. 20,unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob is the presentreading. Bat the Versions, and Rom. xi. 26, read that turn trans-gression from Jacob. In both these passages, however, the NewTestament may be intended to give rather the general meaning thanthe words. [See Alford on Rom. xi. 26.] 102. (8.) When a text is very corrupt, a parallel passage may suggest the true reading. 2 Kings xxv. 3, for on the ninth day of the month read of thefourth month, as in Jer. Hi. 6. 1 Chron. i. 17, for The sons of Shem Aram and Uz, read The sons of Shem, and the sons of Aram, &c, Gen. x. 23. Isa. xxx. 17, for At the rebuke of five shallye flee, read At the rebuke of five shall ten thousand flee; 8. 103. When we come to consider readings which are but. HENRY A. BOARDMAN, 1808. Died 1880. CRITICISM—VARIOUS READINGS. 68 probable, being equally, or more or less nearly equally Doubtfulsupported by external evidence, the rules of criticism readir^become more difficult, and the application of them must bemade with less rigidity. 104. (1.) Of two readings, equally supported by externalevidence, that is the most probable which best suits Various the sense, or which could not, so easily as the other, ruleshave been written by mistake. 2 Cor. v. 14, (If) one died for all, el is omitted in many MSS., butthe sense requires it, and it is easily omitted before «.?. Acts xi. 20,unto the Grecians is the reading of many MSS.; but, probably, itought to be, as many read, to the Greeks. The fact seems noticedbecause of its remarkableness, and justly so, if it be the second case ofthe success of the gospel among the heathen; see chap. x. 44, 45, for thefirst. Grecia
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