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LECTURE Br DR. 00 WIE, BISHOP OF AUCKLAND.

, The Right Rev. Dr. Cowie, Bishop of i Auckland, delivered a lecture iu St. 1 George's Church last evening, the sub- ■ ject being the "Greek Manuscripts of ' the INfew Testament." There was a moderately good attendance. His Lord- , ship commenced by stating that the subt ject was not one which could be fully j treated in the time usually allowed' for a . lecture, but he would endeavour to be 1 concise without being obscure, and to aid I his hearers he would divide the subject II into three heads. Ist. An account ot'the '• three oldest Greek manuscripts in exisll tence. 2nd. A more detailed account of y one of them; and 3rd, the reasons for helieving that these were correct repeti- " tions of the teachings of Jesus Christ and J his Apostles. On these heads he would o give a summary of the researches of m students of European fame. ! His Lordm ship then alluded to the age and comiy pleteness of the three great manuscripts •h which were written about the fourth je century. The Codex Alexandria was i.' now in the possession of the British ts people in the Museum, having been given ae to Charles I. This was thought not to be so old as the Yatican copy in the Pope's a * library. The Cynatic copy, which was 11(3 in the possession of the Emperor of Eusl' sia, wa9 only discovered in the present ' age. It was written on fine vellum. Nt These MBS. containedjthe Old Testamenl 0 p as well as the New. The latter MSB in contained 345| leaves, oach leaf being he inches by 14f inches. One animal onl} he supplied two of the sheets. The writinp h- was in four columns, an arrangemcni ch which was unique. Each column had 4! lines, and each line 12 to 14 letters. Hi showed a fac simile of a portion of one o these columns. The words were writtei Id- in capital letters, which were unconnected '<— The MSS., he said, bore marks of havin 3> been copied from a still more ancien MSS., probably from the Egyptian, am > was the same date as the Vatican MSS. j a record of the 4th century. It wa i '. thought by some of the most learnet j a ' students to be one of 50 volumes pre adj pared by order of Constantino in the yea Sal, 331,, for..;;:.use in his new capital. Hi Locdahip thea explained bow seven