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

David Rollins david87350 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 27 03:50:14 EDT 2002


I have an edition of the same published text from 1844.  It is designated 
as the American edition of the Polymicrian Testament, edited by William Greenfield 
and published by Samuel Bagster.  It is the Received Text with emendations 
and select readings, found in Griesbach's Testament.

	My edition also has a lexicon as part of the "pocket testament" which is 
authored by William Greenfield.  Does anyone have more information on Greenfield 
and his "Polymicrian Greek Testament" or  "Bagster's Comprehensive Bible" 
?

My copy of this combination Greek text -- KJV New Testament - and lexicon 
-- all with very small print -- makes me appreciative of the resources we 
have today.  The person who used this "pocket testament"  in Jacksonian America 
I'm sure would be jealous of our wealth of resources.

David Rollins



On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 06:56  AM, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/26/2002 8:19:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> all1 at st-and.ac.uk writes:
>
> 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?
> _________________________
>
> I have a Gk NT dated 1846 and published in Philadelphia by Perkins and
> Purves.  It likewise is "ad exemplar millianum."  The introduction states
> that it is the "Received Text, which was first published at Leyden, A.D. 1624
> by Elzevir, and republished in folio at Oxford, by Mill, A.D. 1707."  It 
> also
> states that "The centre column contains, (1.) The emendations and select
> various readings, foundin in griesbach's Testament, published at Leipzic,
>  in
> 1805; (2.) The present tenses of all the most difficult verbs; (3.) The words
> supplied which are necessary to complete the sense; and (4.) Numerous
> references to passages in the Septuagint, Apocrypha, and New Testament, in
> which the same Greek word is found."  The book measures 3" X 4½" X  1¼".
>
> gfsomsel
>
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