1752 Folio First Edition Greek New Testament With Robert Estiennes Text, Wettsteins Criticism, and a Syriac Version of Saint Clements Epistles

1752 Folio First Edition Greek New Testament With Robert Estiennes Text, Wettsteins Criticism, and a Syriac Version of Saint Clements EpistlesImportance: A first edition of this major landmark in Modern Textual Criticism. Johann Jakob Wettstein (5 March 1693 23 March 1754) was a Protestant Swiss theologian, and was best known as a New Testament critic. His text critical ideas and the changes to the text that he suggested were an important step toward the modern text established about a hundred years later. He introduced the numbering system for New Testament manuscripts that is still in use

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Trowbridge (Edward Sweet a Printer & Binder

the Easton family

suggesting a wider network of such tradespeople in the region

because of the headline above Luke 20 reading Parable of the Vinegar instead of Parable of the Vinyard

that it affords full evidence of his early habits of piety

and is occasionally updated with more

Gay was a warm friend of Jonathan Mayhew

elsewhere in Wiltshire

Bridge's decease

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