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al theologians, even from such a liberal critic as De Wette, who thought that he had wasted his time and strength. Such is the power of habit and prejudice that every inch of ground in the march of progress is disputed, and must be fairly conquered. But his principles are now pretty generally acknowledged as correct.*

(13.) CONSTANTIN vox TisciiENDORF (professor of the- ology at Leipsic; b. 1815, d. 1874) : Novuni Testamentum Greece, etc., ed. octavo, critica maior, Lips. ; issued at in- tervals, in eleven parts, from 1864 to 1872, 2 vols., with a full critical apparatus.

Prof. Tischendorf is by far the most industrious, en- terprising, and successful textual critic of the nineteenth century. He visited the principal libraries of Europe in search of documents ; made four journeys to England, and three to the Orient ; discovered, collated, copied, and edited many most important MSS. ; and published, between 1841 and 1873, no less than twenty -four editions of the Greek Testament (including the reissues of his stereotyped editio acodemica). Four of these issued 1841, 1849, 1859, and 1872 mark a progress in the acquisition of new material. The catalogue of his publications, most of them relating to Biblical criticism, covers more than ten octavo pages. In 1873 he hoped to attend the General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance in New York, and to read a paper on the influence of the Apocryphal Gospels on the formation of the Roman Catholic theoiy and worship of the Virgin

the so-called Textus Receptm, and boldly placing the New Tes- tament wholly and entirely on the basis of actual authority." Reuss calls him (Biblioth. p. 239) "tir doctiasimus at Scrivener (p. 422 sqq.) depreciates his merits.
 * Tregelles (p. 99): "Lachmann led the way in casting aside

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