 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1781 - 392 pages
...eftablifhed in our Greek Teftaments by the prudence ofErafmus; the honeft bigoiry of the Complutenfian editors ; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotchet ; and the deliberate falfehood, or ftrange mifapprehenfion, of Theodore Beza. (no) Plin. Hilt. Natural,... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...one of the no:es to which volume is expressed in these words; "The thix-e witnesses" (i John, v. 7.) "have been established in our Greek Testament by the...error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotchet, and the deliberate falsehood, or strange misapprehension, of Theodore Beza." This note was attacked... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1809 - 696 pages
...controversy was again revived in consequence of the following note. •P The three witnesses (1 John, v. 7.) have been established in our Greek testament by the prudence of Erasmus, the honest bigotry of the Cornplutcn,ian editors, the typographical fraud or error of Robert Stevens, in placing three MSS. of... | |
 | Classical philology - 1828 - 358 pages
...Greek manuscript whatsoever ; and partly with Mr. Gibbon, that it owes its place in our editions to the prudence of Erasmus ; the honest bigotry of the Complutensian editors; the typographical error of Robert Stephens ; and the strange misapprehension of Theodore Beza. POSTSCRIPT. 1. I have... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 440 pages
...established in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus ; the honest bigotry 6f the Compluteiuian editors ; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotehet ; and the deliberate falsehood, • strange misapprehension, of Theodore Beza. tiplied in... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1815 - 866 pages
...establ^hed in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus ; the honest bigotry of, the Compliitensian editors ; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens, in the placing a crotchet ; and the deliberate falshood, or strange misapprehension, of Theodore B»>za." Thia produced, from... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 430 pages
...p. 116-127. • The three wit nesses hare been established in our Greek Testaments by the prudeuce of Erasmus ; the honest bigotry of the Complutensian...error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotchet ; and the deliberate falsehood, or strange misapprehension, of Theodore Beza. ' I'lin. Hist. Natural.... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1823 - 404 pages
...In the 119th Note to the 37th Chapter of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, (3 vol. p. 545, 4to.) Mr Gibbon asserts, that " The Three...Stephens, in the placing a crotchet ; or the deliberate falsehood or strange misapprehension of Theodore. Beza." This note was attacked by Mr Travis, Archdeacon... | |
 | William Orme - Bible - 1824 - 520 pages
...three witnesses," says Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall, " have been established in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus; the honest bigotry of...typographical fraud or error of Robert Stephens in placing the crotchet; and the deliberate falsehood or strange misapprehension of Theodore Beza." This... | |
 | 1826 - 518 pages
...drawn on by a passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall, who in the 118th note to the 37th chapter, says, " The three witnesses have been established in our Greek...fraud or strange misapprehension of Theodore ' Beza." As our readers may not understand the allusion to Stephens, we must, before we proceed, put them in... | |
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The three witnesses have been established in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus; the honest bigotry of the Complutensian editors; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotchet; and the deliberate falsehood,... 
