John Mill's 1707 Greek New Testament was estimated to contain some 30,000 variants in its accompanying textual apparatus which was based on "nearly 100 manuscripts." Peter J. A pronoun may be changed into a proper noun (such as "he said" becoming "Jesus said"). Otherwise, they may also replace some text of the original with an alternative reading. In other instances, the copyist may add text from memory from a similar or parallel text in another location. They may resort to performing a rearranging of words to retain the overall meaning without compromising the context. If their eye skips to a later word, they may create an omission. If their eye skips to an earlier word, they may create a repetition (error of dittography). Most of the variations are not significant and some common alterations include the deletion, rearrangement, repetition, or replacement of one or more words when the copyist's eye returns to a similar word in the wrong location of the original text. "Gergeza" was preferred over "Geraza" or "Gadara" ( Commentary on John VI.40 (24) – see Matthew 8:28). For example, in Matthew 27:16–17, he favored "Barabbas" against "Jesus Barabbas" ( In Matt.
He declared his preferences among variant readings. Origen, writing in the 3rd century, was one of the first who made remarks about differences between manuscripts of texts that were eventually collected as the New Testament. Textual variants in manuscripts arise when a copyist makes deliberate or inadvertent alterations to a text that is being reproduced.Īn abbreviated list of textual variants in this particular book is given in this article below. Textual variants in the Gospel of Matthew are the subject of the study called textual criticism of the New Testament. Beginning of the Gospel of Matthew in Minuscule 448
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