Cause Of The Disappearance Of The Western Text -- By: Walter Drum
Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 074:294 (Apr 1917)
Article: Cause Of The Disappearance Of The Western Text
Author: Walter Drum
BSac 74:294 (April 1917) p. 334
Cause Of The Disappearance Of The Western Text
[The Editor has received the following from Professor Walter Drum, of Woodstock College, Maryland.]
In your January, 1917, issue, Mr. Buchanan says: “Ever since 382
These words are indicative of the factious spirit, whereby during the past few years, Mr. Buchanan has been destroying the reputation he had earlier gained as a critical editor of the Old Latin text. He is now a special pleader, not a textual critic. His work suggests a one-track mind; that single track is hatred of what he deems to be the ecclesiastical revision of the New Testament by the Church of Rome. Any facts that Mr. Buchanan deems to justify the above rhetorical statements are welcome to us Catholics. We are not afraid to face facts as they are. We are just as desirous, as is the doctor, to have a critical restoration of the Old Latin text. What we object to is the party spirit of the above quoted words and of many other such passages written of late by Mr. Buchanan.
BSac 74:294 (April 1917) p. 335
I respectfully request the doctor to answer the following questions by the statement of facts:
1. What documents of the Bullarium, of Mansi’s Councils, of the Migne Patrology, of the Berlin Kirchenväter Kommission Patrology, of the Vienna Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum, prove that in “382
2. What scientific proof is there that since 382
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