, 1870-08-28

endowed WILL An1S go c!ucA"ln-Aa.-
morning courage. and that he had met with
few persons eqal to himself in this respect.
TIE reader viii sec that, il am right In the
foregoing an2lysiH OF presence OF mind, Na-
poleon IL wrong IN attrbutlng Il to courage.
Bat men seldom aualyze carefully the auah"
uitl theac qualities OF thelss renders than
ly,ll il, the analysis Of them.-Good Words.
riAchcndorrs slnnitlc mnnuscsirt.
nr A. y. ARNOLD, D. D.
From. &Ae Chicago Standard
On tho evening Of February 4, 1889, Profes-
sor Tiechcudo1f, then on his third visit to the
Convent Of St Catherine, at the loot o.
Noun, Sinai, discovered the most valuable, II
not The most ancient, Of all known tnanc.
ecripts of the New Testament. The stewlru
OF the convent, with whom he had been TAX
ing m afternoon Tnlk in the neighborhood,
in:ited him TO take some refreshn1ent with
the steward ehowed him large volume,
wrapped in red cloth. On un1oling the
cover, he found within, manuscript, OF
which he had seen few etray leaves on his |
fi1et visit to the convent, fifteen years before,
and which he then pronounced the most az
Gent Of ali known writings Of this kind but |
OF which he lad failed to gain any further
tidiuCa, though he had inquired and examined
diligently Oh two former Visits to tie con-
! vent ,....... ..-..,,-.l
| into llis hanGa, contained considerable part
Of the Old Testament, and the entire New
Te+tnmcut, together with tho Epistlo Of Bar
| nabss, and y Part Of the Shepherd Of Hc1nas.
Tie owner Of tho manuscript perml1,teu him
! br rnytelf" he SAYS, IL could give wny to the
transport Of Joy which felt. knew that
hsd in my hand the most precious Biblical
treasure in exissence-a document r. Whose age
u3rripts which had ercr examined during
| twenty years study OF the subject
After mauy negotiations and ve1atious de-
snvt, Prof T. at lzst succeeded in getting pos
session OF this docunent ~ present 10 the
Emnerof Of Ruseia; aud, on the 18th Of No
y41,ber, he had tho privilege OF presenting It,
with many other valuable ancient manuscripts.
TO his Imperial Nsjeaty:
peror undertooE.tNe expense of publishing an
imperial fac sinllH edition Of this manuscript.
to be distributed gE1tuitouslr to the chief
libraries Of tlse Christian world, as part of
tie copuemoration OF the Millenary Jubllc.
OF the Russian monarchy. which Was loanaea .Es
III 8G4 ~. Accordingly, in Octooer. lsa.:
Professor T. having completed the "ofk OF
pr,pting at Leipsic, repsired to St. Petersburg.
and presented TO His Majesty the splend'd
edition OF three hundred copies which 10 h,d T.
ordered. After the Emperor had made lib
erai and impartial distribution, about tfty
, cories remained in his possession. These ne
generously presented to tic Professor. to
whose laborious accuracy the value Of the
| edition was 60 largely dne. or cou1ac, ehesa
:, | Libraries and institutions az had failed to
: share in the Emperors gratuisous dissrl'
button. .,,-.,
Their number was already reduced TO thrco,
vhcn few weeks ago, one OK thcsG lasl
!. t1co was orderod from 1.eipsic for the library
!. Of tho Baptist Union Theological sem,nary
/; through tho libeEality Of D. Horny Shcl1on
Esq, Of thus city THIS generous and timcl.
-rsSt ~ kn HoLf - fortd II
ago; and the readers of the Standard may bt
, interested in u brief description of 1t.
It is in the form Of four folio volumes
y nea1ly square. Vol. l. contains only what IL
/, called in such works the critical apparatus
y This consists OF thirty pages Of Pfnlegomena
y or Introduction: Rerenty pages comprising
all the corrections or attentions made on tht
r original manuscript by later hands, Aat
thirty-fye pages more representing NOR
y precise appearance Of certain parts Of th
l. manuscript, the color Of the parchment, th
appearance Of the corrections, ETC.. etc. Th
'. volume ends with four moro pages, exhibiting
- the various styles Of writing in lsrge numbc
i. Of manuscripts OF different ages. Vols. u
and III. contain portions Of the Old Testa
n nent. amounting in all tc about tvo-tifths O
- tlle whole. Vol. II. has fragment Of IL
r. Clrouicles-fzom ix. a 10 II. q. the whole G
=" Isaiah, the first ten chapters Of Jeremiah. All
te unbakkuk, Zephaniah, Hsggai, Zechariat
n. n, and als,Aehi, thus wanting Only t,lrce OF th
90 minor prophets-fosea, Amos and Micai
-, 1eaiah are inserted the apocsyphal books {
he 1obit (wansing Oh: l. J, first aud fourth booi
la OF Aaccabees. Vol. III. comprises Palm
..t Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Cantic!es, Wisdom {
~ Solomon, EccleEissticus, job. all entirs. Thet
lss. are all in the Greek TRANSLATION Of tho LNN
Ia and arc arracged IN two columns Oh eae
~ page. They amount 10 $50 ont of tho 9:
he chapters OF the Old Te-tament, and l33 Of
Il; Of the 175 chapters of the Apocryrphe. vc
,c' ". il the pearl OF the manuscript. Il CO.
H. tho Eristle Of Ea1nabas, and part Of Il
ess Shepherd Of Hunas (i). The page is divide
wc into four columns; the text il writtou in ca
rot ita1 letters. without any division between Il
a1a words, 70 that each Ct tho forty-eight lin
81 ass shs sss ea e. hss e
a1o ainer considerably in length. There 4
~, small spaces at tho end OF the par1grA,
1er and there il, now and then. though very rar
", a single dot At the end Of paragrap
.eo The order Of the books is different from I,
Iut q our English Testamentn in two respect
nd Tho Epistlcs OF Paul p1etede the Acts. Al
oss the Fpistle Of the Hebrews ia inserted b
,cT tween ID Thessaionians and 1st nmoth
81 The utmost care has been taken to aave ca
a. page, line and lett r, represent az exactly
possible the original manuscript LAtet han
IN. writing, in the way Of correction, addition
IiEo alteration Of any kind, ii properly ignore
I.,1 ~ that tho work may present nothing hut VT
-. tie original scfibo wrote
~, This fac-simile carries us back to ths GIL
Ior days Of Chrsti1nity. Tho manuscript il
!he Sio in tl,n times of Tho first Chri,tiau +.
lch neror. Indeed. II il vcrr nrobahly one
en- ihaes uhic1 he h;msar - r,,corIr1 r t. hsre
are csrofuilr cor;.sl ~ ttts naa ~ ths chnr.h
cs, T. i; n;,onestionsi,. t,a o,i., can. .,js,e ~,
,ri- ~ a. w Tastant NV 4, ax;o.a1sa =
Az V,,,esn $500 ~ n,r.o i,a =. Il
by "i;;.i.. 1s.s ~ tao.no 90 "
uE- ns ~" seas. Sief III. III "a y 1,,eo neo
10 i,alf c ot s1th. Tia % nrox;5enee of COD I'D
sa9 wopderful, in bringing to light this rrecic
~ ~ document, concealed iron, the Western Wo
tne al for more than !. 500 years, II would rsthe
dor ssil a distinrnishe1 Tnci;sh srholar to l,r
r. ..hare il;s,,oves al this Sin,ific rn.,
aR- .cviu. ,1,,u thn Eoh.;.rocr ~ ,Ia Oraeu