Tell-tale verse(s) for old versions of the Greek NT?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Aug 26 08:41:18 EDT 2002


At 1:16 PM +0100 8/26/02, A. Lukaszewski wrote:
>Dear Listmembers:
>
>I have recently obtained a very old (1851) copy of the Greek New Testament.  I
>cannot find in it any mention of which text was published.  Below the title
>on the title page, it reads:  JUXTA EXEMPLAR MILLIANUM.  The only non-TR
>texts of this time that I have been able to learn of are those of Lachmann,
>Tregels, and of Tischendorff.  Does anyone know of any verses that are
>rendered one way in, say, TR, and another way in a different text?  Or is
>there another way I could tell which text this is?

This is not a direct answer to your question, but I would suppose that
"JUXTA EXEMPLAR MILLIANUM" means that the text printed in this book is that
of the 17th-century Oxford don who published, just before his death in
1707, what Bruce Metzger (TTotNT, pp. 107-8) describes as "an epoch-making
edition of the Greek text" in which 3,041 verses out of almost 8,000 in the
whole NT were discussed. Nevertheless, so Metzger, "despite the vast amount
of solid learning embodied in his edition ... Mill did not venture to form
a text of his own, but reprinted Stephanus' text of 1550 without
intentional variation." Unless, therefore, your copy contains Mill's
prolegomena, you won't see the fruit of his work on the MSS reflected in a
Greek text which remains fundamentally the TR.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
Most months:: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad at ioa.com
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/



More information about the B-Greek mailing list