This unique text offers a textual analysis of the New Testament, focusing on passages significantly affected by variant readings in the manuscript tradition. While the vast majority of alternate readings dealt with in textual criticism consist of largely inconsequential variations such as spelling, the interpretation and exegesis of several passages is notably affected by which variant is adopted. It is these passages that Thomas Sheldon Green deals with in this helpful study.
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“First, there is the gloss properly so called, namely, a term serving to furnish an explanation or attach a precise interpretation to one in the text.” (Page v)
“Again, this class embraces supplements of various extent, where the text may have been elliptical or seemed defective” (Page v)
“the reading in question had a settled currency in later times” (Page viii)
“Corruption may also be the work of wilful tamperings” (Page vi)