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PART III.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.

FIRST DIVISION—­GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Language of the New Testament—­1.  God’s Providence as seen in the Languages of the Old and New Testaments—­Fitness of the Hebrew for its Office in History, Poetry, and Prophecy—­2.  Adaptation of the Greek to the Wants of the New Testament Writers—­3.  Providential Preparation for a Change in the Language of the Inspired Writings—­Cessation of the Hebrew as the Vernacular of the Jews, and Withdrawal of the Spirit of Prophecy Contemporaneous—­4.  Introduction of the Greek Language into Asia and Egypt—­Its Use among the Jews, especially in Egypt—­Its General Use in our Lord’s Day—­5.  Character of the New Testament Greek—­Its Basis the Common Hellenic Dialect, with an Hebraic Coloring received from the Septuagint, and an Aramaic Tinge also—­The Writers of the New Testament Jews using the Language of Greece for the Expression of Christian Ideas—­Technical Terms in the New Testament—­6.  Adaptation of the New Testament Greek to its Office

CHAPTER XXV.

External Form of the New Testament—­1.  The Three Main Divisions of the New Testament Writings:  Historical, Epistolary, Prophetical—­2.  Natural Order of these Divisions—­3.  Subdivisions—­In the Historic Part—­In the Epistolary Part—­Diversity of Arrangement in Manuscripts—­4.  Arrangement of the New Testament Writings not Chronological—­Importance of Knowing this—­5.  Continuous Writing of the Ancient Uncial Manuscripts—­ Stichometrical Mode of Writing—­This led gradually to the Present System of Interpunction Cursive Manuscripts—­7.  Ancient Divisions in the Contents of the Sacred Text—­Ammonian Sections and Eusebian Canons—­ 8.  Divisions called Titles—­9.  Divisions of the Other New Testament Books—­10.  Chapters and Verses—­Church Lessons—­11.  Remarks on the above Divisions—­Paragraph Bibles—­12.  Titles and Subscriptions

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE NEW TESTAMENT TEXT AND ITS HISTORY—­I. The Manuscript Text—­1 and 2.  General Remarks—­3.  Origin of Various Readings and their Classification—­Substitutions, Insertions, Omissions—­Arising from Inadvertence, or Unskilful Criticism—­Wilful Falsifications cannot be imputed to the Copyists—­4.  Materials for Textual Criticism—­General Results—­5.  Notice of some Manuscripts—­The Vatican, Sinai, Alexandrine, Ephraem, Palimpsest, Dublin Palimpsest, Beza or Cambridge (Bilingual), Purple.  Cursive Manuscripts—­II. The Printed Text—­6.  Primary Editions and their Sources—­Complutensian Polyglott, Erasmian, Stephens’, Beza’s, Elzevir Editions—­7.  Remarks on the Received Text—­III. Principles of Textual Criticism—­8.  Its End—­Sources of Evidence—­Greek Manuscripts—­Their varying Value—­9.  Ancient Versions and their Value—­10.  Citations of the Church Fathers—­11.  Canons of Criticism