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Originally Posted by NaphtaliPress  Thanks for all the replies. Now for the possible monkey wrench. The first reading without the additional "all" is the reading of the both Larger Catechism Manuscripts and the Minutes of the Assembly. The second reading is that of the first printed edition which passed on to all subsequent printed texts. It is "possible" the addition, while it may clarify (and some of you do not think it is necessarily a needed clarification) could have been a printer's slip that got by everyone rather than an intentional emendation by the Assembly to make a clarification.
So, what do you think now?  |
I expected this, frankly. Nobody in those days would read the original sentence in the way I described. "Such" meant to mean "all such" as near as I can tell, especially after reading a lot of volumes of Owen.