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latcd the most important uncial and cursive MSS., and pub- lished the palimpsest Codex Zacyntliius (on Luke), lie was far behind Tischendorf in the extent of his resources, but more scrupulously accurate in the use of them.* He followed Lachmann's principle. He left behind him a monumental work of painstaking, conscientious, and de- vout scholarship. But it needs to be corrected and sup- plemented from the Codex Sinaiticus, and the critical edi- tion of the Codex Vaticanus, which he was not permitted to inspect in Rome by the jealous authorities. Like Tisch- endorf, he was prevented from completing his work, and was struck down by paralysis while engaged in conclud- ing the last chapters of Revelation (in 1870). He never recovered, and could not take part in the labours of the English Revision Committee, of which he was appointed a member. The Prolegomena were compiled and edited four years after his death by Dr. Hort and Rev. A. W. Streane, 1879.

(15.) WESTCOTT and HORT : The New Testament in the Original Greek, Cambridge and London, Macmillan t Co. ; New York, Harper k Brothers, 1881.

Of this, the last and the best critical edition of the Greek Testament, which was begun in 1853 and completed in 1881, we have said enough in the beginning of this Intro- duction. >

Simultaneously with this edition there appeared two other editions of the Greek Testament, which make no

pension of 200 from the civil list. His belief in verbal inspira- tion made him, like Bcngcl, a verbal critic.

Tregelles differ" (in collation), "the latter is seldom in the wrong."
 * Dr. Scrivener remarks (p. 481): "Where Tischendorf and

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