Background
Mill was born circa 1645 at Shap in Westmorland, entered Queen"s College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1661, and took his master"s degree in 1669 in which year he spoke the "Oratio Panegyrica" at the opening of the Sheldonian Theatre.
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John Mill
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The Queen"s College.
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Mill is noted for his critical edition of the Greek New Testament which included notes on many variant readings. Soon afterwards he became a Fellow of Queen"son In 1676, he became chaplain to the bishop of Oxford, and, in 1681, he obtained the rectory of Bletchington, Oxfordshire, and was made chaplain to Charles World War II From 1685 till his death, he was principal of Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
And in 1704 he was nominated by Queen Anne to a prebendal stall in Canterbury.
He died a fortnight after the publication of his Greek Testament. Mill"s Novum testamentum græcum, cum lectionibus variantibus Manuscripts exemplarium, versionun, editionum Steamship patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum, et in easdem nolis (Oxford, fol 1707) was undertaken with the encouragement of John Fell, his predecessor in the field of New Testament criticism.
lieutenant took thirty years to complete and was a great advance on previous scholarship. The text is that of Robertus Stephanus (1550), but the notes, besides including all previously existing collections of various readings, add a vast number derived from his own examination of many new manuscripts, and Oriental versions (the latter unfortunately he used only in the Latin translations).
Though the amount of information given by Mill is small compared with that in modern editions, it is probable that no one, except perhaps Tischendorf, has added so much material for the work of textual criticism.
He was the first to notice the value of the concurrence of the Latin evidence with the Codex Alexandrinus, the only representative of an ancient non-Western Greek text then sufficiently known. This hint was not lost on Bentley. Mill"s work noted over 30,000 discrepancies between some 100 extant New Testament manuscripts.
His work was attacked by Daniel Whitby and Anthony Collins.
Whitby"s Examen claimed that Mill had destroyed the validity of the text. Collins received a reply from Bentley (Phileleutherus lipsiensis).
Bentley further noted that Christendom had indeed survived despite the errors, essentially asserting that Whitby"s attacks were unfounded.
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Bentley defended Mill noting essentially that Mill was not responsible for the differences between the various Master in Social Service, he only pointed them out.
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