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Title: The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

Author: John Burgon

Editor: Edward Miller

Release Date: April 16, 2007 [EBook #21112]

Language: English

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THE
CAUSES OF THE CORRUPTION
OF THE
TRADITIONAL TEXT
OF THE
HOLY GOSPELS

BEING THE SEQUEL TO
_THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY GOSPELS_

BY THE LATE

JOHN WILLIAM BURGON, B. D.

DEAN OF CHICHESTER

ARRANGED, COMPLETED, AND EDITED
BY

EDWARD MILLER, M. A.

WYKEHAMICAL PREBENDARY OF CHICHESTER

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS

CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO.

1896.

'Tenet ecclesia nostra, tenuitque semper firmam illam et immotam
Tertulliani regulam "Id verius quod prius, id prius quod ab initio." Quo
propius ad veritatis fontem accedimus, eo purior decurrit Catholicae
doctrinae rivus.'

Cave's _Proleg._ p. xliv.

'Interrogate de semitis antiquis quae sit via bona, et ambulate in
ea.'--Jerem. vi. 16.

'In summa, si constat id verius quod prius, id prius quod ab initio, id
ab initio quod ab Apostolis; pariter utique constabit, id esse ab
Apostolis traditum, quod apud Ecclesias Apostolorum fuerit
sacrosanctum.'--Tertull. _adv. Marc._ l. iv. c. 5.

PREFACE

The reception given by the learned world to the First Volume of this
work, as expressed hitherto in smaller reviews and notices, has on the
whole been decidedly far from discouraging. All have had some word of
encomium on our efforts. Many have accorded praise and signified their
agreement, sometimes with unquestionable ability. Some have pronounced
adverse opinions with considerable candour and courtesy. Others in
opposing have employed arguments so weak and even irrelevant to the real
question at issue, as to suggest that there is not after all