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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt:... yet Esdras preserves true readings of numbers, etc., which are all wrong in the non-interpolated Ezra, both in the Hebrew text and the Greek version. (ij.) Matt. xv. 8. The common text reads 'E-yyifci /xoi 6 Xoos ovros To O.vtuiv, Koi Tdk fieTi /t« TLfia.-Other copies have 6 A.oos Tois e.Lt(ri fit Ti/ui without the other words. The common text is found in none of the more ancient versions, but it is that of the mass of MSS.: the other reading is that of all the more ancient versions which we have (the Thebaic being here defective), of Origen and other fathers, and is in the MSS. B D L, 33, 124. So that this one passage might be relied on as an important proof that it is the few MSS. and not the multitude which accord with ancient testimony. On this passage, Mr. Scrivener remarks in opposition to the view just stated:--Matt. xv. ver. 8. "Griesbach, Vater, and Lachmann, remove from the text as spurious the words e'-yyifet pot,, 'draweth nigh unto me,' and Tu a-roan avrtav, Kal, 'with their mouth, and.' They are wanting in Syr., Vulg., the Italic, Ethiopia, and Armenian versions; in Origen, Chrysostom, and several other fathers. This would form a strong reason for questioning their authenticity, were they not found in all existing manuscripts exceptive (B D L, 33, 124), all of which are decidedly Alexandrian. Fully admitting the weight of the versions on a point of this kind, and the possibility that the disputed words were inserted from the LXX. of Isaiah xxix. 13; I still think it unreasonable to reject the reading contained in so immense a majority of the manuscripts of every age, and of both families. Indeed, we cannot do so without unsettling the first principles of Scriptural criticism." Then, if so, those "first principles," mu...