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June 15, 1920 benutitul werkd af words can well do without some idea of the beauties ind relations of fhese words The flowers tell us of rods wisder and power, bat his words tell us of his plans ani purposes and love “The sacred Seriptures are preserved for us am thousands of Matiscripts, some very ancient, some more modern There are three, the nest ancient and complete, whieh have, in the providence fof God, practiealhs preserved the Seriptures for us. Alb the rest put fogether have dittle to add to the evidence which these three grevoonanuseripts bring us And is not this like God”? He decreed thar in the month ot two or three witnesses every word is to be established Shall we not tise his own rule and found our text upon the three witnesses which he liu preserved for this purpose’. “The three ancient manuscripts on which our faith is founded are: Coder Vaticunus, so called because it is in’ the Vatican Library at Reme, the Coder Sinaiticws, so called because it was found ino a convent on Mount Sinai; and Cader Alerandrinus, which is now in the British Museum in London These are all written in enpital letters, no spacing between words and in other ways are proved to be the most ancient texts known, A full description of them will form part of the proposed Version. “The war has greatly hindered the collation of the text. Af Its begruning the photographs of Coder Vaticanus were ordered from Italy. After three years of waiting we were at last obliged to get then in England. To facilitate matters the first two parts were eonpared with printed copies of the manuscripts. Afterward, when the work was in type, it was eompared with the photographs, ‘So many minute points of difference arose, on account of the inaccuracy of the printed copies, that this plan has been abandoned. Now the text is compared, letter by letter, with photographs of each of three ancient manuscripts firat, then, after it is in type, it ta carefully revised and checked, so that the possibility of error in reduced to almost nothing. . . . “Ags these three codices do not always agree, we must fix on some permanent principles to guide tus in choosing the right reading for the text, while we put the rejected reading above the Mao in the superiinear. A long experience in reading printers’ proof will help much in this matter, for the ancient scribes made miytakes in their first draft, just as a typesetter does today. The typesetter’s mistakes do not appear in print, for they are corrected before the work goes to press, but the scribe’y mistakes had to stand. The corrections were placed above the line. We will, therefore, follow the corrected text, not the seribe’s blunders and errors, as is usually done. We are confirmed in this course, as well as surprived and delighted, when we find that the corrections of Ninaiticus almost always agree with its companion witness, Vaticanus. Vo fad an editor of the fourth century, with evidence before him even better than any we now poxsens, delHberately changing a reading to agree with another text of paramount value practically proclatmed these readings as genuine and inspired. “Another fact must be considered. It ls very easy for a printer or a seribe to ont a word or a phrase but ever so unlikely that be will add to his copy. This principle will lead us to retain all well-authenticated readings even though one, or even two manuaeripts omit them For example: Ef we worked on the principle that everything feft out of any manuscript is not gennine then we must leave out two of the tribes (Gad and Simeon, Revelation 6:5-7) In the list of the 144,000, But the internal evidence here fa too strony there muat be twelve tribes Ten will not do. We cannot cross out any passage simply beeause one manuscript omsty it. “But let no one suppose that we will impose one opinion or judgment upon anyone even when we think we are absolutely sure. Whatever the text may be the evidence is all given. Above any reading which does not have the unanimous support of our three Witnesses is placed the evidence of the dissenting manuscript. Tn this was, enyene mas form his own text, for the evidence is at hand. Those readings are placed immediately above the text itself and are called the superlinear. This is better than relegating them to the bottom of the page where they would not be notived Being above the reading to which they refer they are taken in oat oa glance, without effort) This is the way the ancient seribesx cor rected ther texts. Thus the student of the Concorbane Texe knows, at a single ghinee, what a few years age would eail for oa journey to Petrograd and to iHome, and even then he would not be Sure Of aecess to the precious documents ‘Vor the sake or oa pertect reference ssstem the Grreek text is princed in lines or twenty Jetfers each, fifty Times fo a page This makes exactly oa thousand letters per pare Tach Jetter has a Nusrber and may be reterred ta by if Colossians has 7002, Philippians SO6G ‘This system fixes the teat 80 LD ealinot be tampered with If thos had been done ain the Dbezinning no letter could have been lost or mserted without bens Tephesrats bas 12008 Jetters, detected sa our next task ois te caretully count the letters betore Setting the text oi type This is done with great care” However, dhe work is oniy parti, done oat this time Only the book of Reveletion Cealled qrore literauty ¢ The Unveiting’ yy is tn ereenthition mo brechure form, but work is progressing tite The pemratheler ai thus New ment The Revelifioa i peculrarh datheudy hecatse ot the faet that of the tle ee Huse ips orbs twae Contain this book othe Alexandrian and the Sinmities Te Mivingain three wettiesses, recourse owas had ota Potrcanm mnuisceip oot hater date wathout. woe chins mdibr og vee toon Tesntvalent eter te mothe te WATCH TOWER 191 anytidnge of salie to the Pnelish product The work is cvomsereqitoushy aad: careliily ¢done. wathout any noticenble effort fo plense anrvore. The pecutiar value and exeetlence of the Coneordaut sublinear (ioe. the Hteral word-for-word and sylhible-for ssilable rendering under the Greek), as compared with the Diaglott, lies in its uniform rvenderimg of each Greek word so that the Enelish renders dependence on the opinion of the transhitor is reduced toon minimum. Where the Diaglott renders the word sotn sometimes “soul aud sometimes shife’, the Concordia does not mix these important terms. The Greek and English student gets at the Greek and knows that evers time a given English correspondent is used the Greek word which it represents is always in the text. Recent snd repented tests have shown that the footnotes of (he Tischendort New Pestament, whieh we fave retied on for information regarding the Sinaithe MS. are aot altegether accurate. Those notes are bused not on the manu seript itself butoon Dr Tisehendort’s edition, which sometimes follows the original seribe and more often the correctors or proofreaders, and even inserts what is feund neither in the text nor in the corrections. An tustance is the entire omission from the Sinaitic MS. of the tribes of Cad and Simeon in the list of twelve tribes, but which inmportant fact is not noted ac all in) Tisehendorf's notes, Tanechnitz Edition. "Phe Concordant collection shows how the original text was and what each corrector added, down to very minute details: hence may be relied on for the facts. It is quite possible that a number of the friends will desire to have “The Unveiling’ now, even though the rest of the parts ace not ready. The various parts are issued (as they are rendy) merely in paper covers and are intended to be collated in 2 specially designed loose-leaft binder, whieh can be secured now or later. This binder permits of the insertion of personal notes between any pages. Because the sublinear literal that those unaccustomed to linguistic work might find it difficult at times to get the real meaning without the special analytical concordance on whieh the interlinear is built, we have rather encouraged the publishers to get out the whole New Testament and the eoneordance before it is pushed in a large way. When such is done, the evidence now availible goes to show that it will be the most valuable textual work extunt for the Enelish-reading Rible student. lor those who would like to “The Unveiling” part separately the price is Tie (38) postpaid. Phe costs for photographs of manuscripts, for special types, ete, live heen very great, so thar even this price does tot rendy cover is so POSSESS them The priee expected to be charged for the complete editton of the , ho ae sn. 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