Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare | |
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Born | Coulsdon, Surrey | 14 September 1856
Died | 9 January 1924 | (aged 67)
Occupation(s) | Orientalist, theologian, writer, translator |
Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, FBA (14 September 1856 – 9 January 1924) was a British orientalist, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Theology at the University of Oxford.
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The Fruit of Textual Criticism
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Have you ever looked inside your Bible, and seen those notes that say, "The better manuscripts do not contain this," "The best manuscripts do not have these verses," "The better manuscripts say this and not that"? That, brothers and sisters, is called Textual Criticism. I'd like to talk to you about the fruit of Textual Criticism. Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications. Jesus talked a lot about fruit in Matthew 7:15-20. He said, 15 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” You can't miss it from Jesus' words, can you? Fruit is what God wants, and it's GOOD fruit. What does God call "good fruit"? conversion of sinners is a good fruit. In 7:4, it's good works. In 15:28, it's giving to missions and to the aid of brothers and sisters in Christ who need something. Those are all good fruits that God likes. Galatians 5:22-23, of course, is another list of good fruit. Listen to this one: 22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” That's the fruit God's looking for. Not one place in the entire Bible is DOUBT called a fruit. Check it for yourself. And yet this is exactly what I find in textual critics, textual criticism, and in the people strongly influenced by textual critics and textual criticism. It's funny. If all this stuff about "getting back to the word of God" were true, You'd expect that in one of these "excised Bibles" here where they cut out all the things that they didn't want, there would be FRUIT of FAITH, evangelism, giving to missions --there'd be SOMEthing! The fruit of the Spirit! But all I find... is Bart Ehrman. Doubters! Like this. Kiersopp Lake. For many years he followed the theories of Westcott and Hort, and the guy who made the text that is now called the "Majority Text," (but it's not, I'll get to that), Von Soden. He said, after years of paying attention and doing their rules, “In spite of the claims of Westcott and Hort and of Von Soden, we do not know the original form of the Gospels, and it is quite likely that we NEVER SHALL.” Then another guy: Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare. He wrote this before he died in 1924, major credentials (see Look What's Missing, p. 55): “…the ultimate text (meaning New Testament), if there ever was one that deserves to be so called, is for ever irrecoverable.” Like I said here, Textual Criticism is not an act of faith. It is an act of doubt and leads only to despair. When you see a person who really believes Textual Criticism, do you see them as armed soul winners? or as armchair quarterbacks? Do you see them fighting the enemy, or fighting the believers? It is said that those who can, do. Those who can't teach. And those who can't do or teach, are critics. Brothers and sisters, there are only two options: faith or doubt. I know so many people who've read the King James Bible and believe it, and the fruit is FAITH and acts of faith, and winning others to the faith. Faith or doubt: it's your choice. I'm just presenting it before you. God bless you, and have a wonderful day.
Biography
Conybeare was born in Coulsdon, Surrey, the third son of a barrister, John Charles Conybeare, and grandson of the geologist William Daniel Conybeare.[1] He took an interest in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an Old Catholic organization, becoming a Bishop in it in 1894. Also in the 1890s he wrote a book on the Dreyfus case, as a Dreyfusard, and translated the Testament of Solomon and other early Christian texts. As well, he did influential work on Barlaam and Josaphat. He was an authority on the Armenian Church.[2]
From 1904 to 1915 he was a member of the Rationalist Press Association, founded in 1899.
One of his best-known works is Myth, Magic, and Morals from 1909, later reissued under the title The Origins of Christianity. This has been read both as a strong criticism of the Jesus myth theory, making Conybeare a supporter of the historical Jesus; but also as an attack on aspects of orthodox Christianity itself. He returned later in 1914 to make a direct assault on leading proponents of the time of the Jesus-myth theory.
Coneybeare also worked as a translator and translated two volumes of Philostratus' The Life of Apollonius of Tyana for the Loeb Classical Library. He also translated The Testament of Solomon.
He died in 1924 aged 68 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[3]
His wife Mary Emily was a translator of Wilhelm Scherer.
See also
Works
Books
- Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion by Hermann Lotze (1892) translator
- The Armenian Apology and Acts of Apollonius, and Other Monuments of Early Christianity (1896)
- The Demonology of the New Testament. I (1896)
- About the Contemplative Life; or the Fourth Book of the Treatise Concerning Virtues, by Philo Judaeus (1895) editor
- The Key of Truth, a Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia (1898)
- The Story of Ahikar from the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek and Slavonic Versions (1898) with J. Rendel Harris and Agnes Smith Lewis
- The Dreyfus Case (1899)
- Rituale Armenorum Being the Administration of the Sacraments & the Breviary Rites of the Armenian Church Together with the Greek Rites of Baptism & Epiphany edited from the oldest manuscripts (1905) with Arthur John Maclean
- Selections from the Septuagint According to the Text of Swete (1905) with St. George Stock, later as A Grammar of Septuagint Greek online
- The Armenian version of Revelation, Apocalypse of John the Divine (1907) editor
- Myth, Magic, and Morals: A Study of Christian Origins (1909)
- History of New Testament Criticism (1910)
- The Ring of Pope Xystus, Together with the Prologue of Rufinus (1910)
- The Life of Apollonius of Tyana: The Epistles of Apollonius and the Treatise of Eusebius. Philostratus (1912) translator, Loeb Classical Library, two volumes
- A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum (1913)
- The Historical Christ; or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith (1914)
- Russian Dissenters (1921)
- The Armenian Church: Heritage and Identity. (St. Vartan Press: New York, 2001) edited by the Rev. Nerses Vrej Nersessian
Articles
- "The Testament of Solomon" (translation), Jewish Quarterly Review (October 1898)
- "The History of Christmas", The American Journal of Theology 3 (1899), 1–22
- "Antiochus Strategos, The Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 AD Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine" (translation), English Historical Review 25 (1910), 502–517
- "The Philosophical Aspects of the Doctrine of Divine Incarnation" Jewish Quarterly Review (July 1895)
- "The Demonology of the New Testament. I" Jewish Quarterly Review July 1896
- "Christian Demonology. II" Jewish Quarterly Review October 1896
- "Christian Demonology. III" Jewish Quarterly Review April 1897
- The Eusebian Form of the Text of Matthew 28:19 Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (a journal) 2 (1901): 275–88
- "The Survival of Animal Sacrifices inside the Christian Church" The American Journal of Theology January 1903
- "The History of the Greek Church" The American Journal of Theology July 1903
References
- ^ D. S. Margoliouth, revised by Roger T. Stearn (2015). "Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis (1856–1924)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France {BnF Data}. "Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare (1856-1924)".
- ^ "Residents of Brompton Cemetery". Brompton Cemetery. Archived from the original on 14 July 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2008.
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