and classified, by due attention to the following suggestions (Monita) : —
1. By far the more numerous portions of the Sacred Text (thanks be to GOD) labour under no variety of reading deserving notice.
2. These portions contain the whole scheme of salvation, and establish every particular of it by every test of truth.
3. Every various reading ought and may be referred to these portions, and decided by them as by a normal standard.
4. The Text and Various Readings of the New Testament are found in Manuscripts and in Books printed from Manu scripts, whether Greek, Latin, Graico-Latin (concerning which I have expressed the same opinion in my Apparatus Criticus,1 pp. 387, 642 [Second Edition, pp. 20, '319, 320], as Ludolf Kuster2 has of the Boermrian? the most important of them in
1 "Patria eorum est Britannia." — App. Crit. p. 20. — (I. B.)
2 Ludolf Kuster reprinted Mill's Greek New Testament, with alterations at Rotterdam, 1710.— (I. B.)
3 The CODEX BOERNERIANUS derives its name from Dr CHRISTIAN FREDERICK BOERNER, to whom it once belonged : it is now deposited in the royal library at Dresden. It contains St Paul's Epistles, with the exception of that to the Hebrews, and is written in Greek and Latin; the Latin, or old ante-Hieronymian version being interlined between the Greek, and written over the text, of which it is a translation. Semler supposed that the Latin was written since the Greek ; but Professor Matthsei, who published a copy of this manuscript, suggests that the uniformity of the handwriting, and similarity in the colour of the ink, evince, that both the Greek and Latin texts proceeded from the same transcriber. It frequently agrees with the Codex Claromontanus. The time when this manuscript was written, has not been determined with precision. That it is ancient, appears (says Michaelis) from the form of the characters, and the absence of accents and marks of aspiration. It seems to have been written in an age when the transition was making from the uncial to small characters ; and, from the correspondence of the letters r, s, and t in the Latin version, to that form which is found in the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, Bishop Marsh infers, that this MS. was written in the west of Europe, and probably between the 8th and 9th centuries. Kuster, who first collated this MS., supposed it to be British; Doederlein, Irish. The learned reviewer of Matthsei's edition of this MS., in the Jena Literary Gazette, decides that it could only be written in Germany or France ; because, in the margin, many passages are noted contra yoliuffx.a'Ax.0!/, apparently because they are contradictory to the opinion of Gottschalk, a celebrated monk, who disputed concerning predestination, in the 9th century, but whose tenets excited little attention, except in those two