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MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)

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MILL, See also:JOHN (c. 1645–1707) , See also:English theologian, was See also:born about 1645 at Shap in See also:Westmorland, entered See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford, as a servitor in 1661, and took his See also:master's degree in 1669 in which See also:year he spoke the " Oratio Panegyrica " at the opening of the Sheldonian See also:Theatre. Soon afterwards he was chosen See also:fellow and See also:tutor of his college; in 1676 he became See also:chaplain to the See also:bishop of Oxford, and in 1681 he obtained the rectory of Bletchington, See also:Oxfordshire, and was made chaplain to See also:Charles II. From 1685 till his See also:death he was See also:principal of St See also:Edmund's See also:Hall; and in 1704 he was nominated by Queen See also:Anne to a prebendal See also:stall in See also:Canterbury. He died on the 23rd of See also:June 1707, just a fortnight after the publication of his See also:Greek Testament. Mill's Novum testamentum grxcum, cum lectionibus variantibus See also:MSS. exemplarium, versionum, editionum SS. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum, et in easdem notis (Oxford, fol. 1707), was undertaken by the See also:advice and encouragement of John See also:Fell (q.v.), his predecessor in the See also:field of New Testament See also:criticism; it represents the labour of See also:thirty years, and is admitted to See also:mark a See also:great advance on all that had previously been achieved. The See also:text indeed is that of R. Stephanus (155o), but the notes, besides embodying all previously existing collections of various readings, add a vast number derived from his own examination of many new MSS, and See also:Oriental versions (the latter unfortunately he used only in the Latin See also:translations). Though the amount of See also:information given by Mill is small compared with that in See also:modern See also:editions, it is probable that no one See also:person, except perhaps See also:Tischendorf, has added so much material for the See also:work of textual criticism. He was the first to See also:notice, though only incidentally, the value of the concurrence of the Latin See also:evidence with the Codex Alexandrinus, the only representative of an See also:ancient non-Western Greek text then sufficiently known; this hint was not lost on See also:Bentley (see See also:Westcott and See also:Hort, Introduction to New Testament). Mill's various readings, numbering about thirty thousand, were attacked by See also:Daniel See also:Whitby (1638–1726) in his Examen as destroying the validity of the text; Antony See also:Collins also argued in the same sense though with a different See also:object.

The latter called forth a reply from Bentley (Phileleutherus lipsiensis). In .1.710 Kuster reprinted Mill's Testament at See also:

Amsterdam with the readings of twelve additional MSS.

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