Book Traces: Civil War Era Readers and Their Books in Virginia Libraries

One word as regard to the received text must be said whatever its imperfections may be, it will be found by any one who takes the trouble to make a tabulation that it is nearer the text of Hippolytus than those of x, c or a Sahadic, Bohairic or Syriac or Gigas or Primasius, Tyconius or Cyprian. We have been told that we must not compare with the Textus Receptus but with some other more reliable standard, as if one could find a more reliable standard. Each of us ought to use one common standard for all our comparisons & that standard in use for over 350 years is Stephens edition of 1550. Hoskin