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Excerpt from The State of the Printed Hebrew d104 of the Old Testament Considered: Dissertation the Second, Wherein the Samar Copy of the Pentateuch Is Vindicated: The Printed Copies of the Chaldee Paraphrase Are Proved to Be Corrupted: The Sentiments of the Jews on the Heb; d104 Are Ascertained: An Account Is Given of All the Heb; Mss
And as the printed copies of other ancient writings are generally judg'd more or lefs ge nuine and perfect, in proportion as more or fewer mss have been collated, to correct the errors in each of them; fo, if the-feveral tran fcribers of the facred writings have err'd like others, the collation of mss feems the belt, and indeed the only method, for procuring a a good edition of the holy bible. For is 'tliat the only volume in the world, which is to be depriv'd of a privilege granted to all the rei'ri And, if granted alfo to one ltafi of that facred volume; will there be equity, can. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
