Arthur Ayres Ellis (1830 – 22 March 1887) was a

Greek Testament (''The New Testament in Greek'') is a critical edition of the New Testament in its original Koine Greek published by ''Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft'' (German Bible Society), forming the basis of most modern Bible translations and biblical crit ...

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. Arthur Ayres Ellis was born in 1830 in

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, the son of Charles Ellis of Birmingham. He was educated at

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, under Dr. Lee. He entered

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, as a subsizar in 1848, graduated as ninth in the first class of the classical tripos in 1852, was elected fellow in 1854, and took the degree of M.A. in 1855. He was ordained soon afterwards, and filled the office of junior dean of his college, and that of divinity lecturer at Christ's College. In 1860 he was presented by Trinity College to the vicarage of St Mary's church in

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in Bedfordshire, where he remained till his death on 22 March 1887. While resident in college he gave a great deal of attention to

Richard Bentley Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenis ...

's preparations for his edition of the Greek Testament, and in 1862 he published at Cambridge the volume entitled ''Bentleii Critica Sacra'', which contains a considerable portion of Bentley's notes extracted from his manuscripts in

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, with the Abbé Rulotta's collation of the Vatican Codex (B), an edition of the '

Epistle to the Galatians The Epistle to the Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a number of Early Christian communities in Galatia. Scholars have suggested that this is either the Galatia (Roman province), Roman pro ...

' given as a specimen of Bentley's intended edition, and an account of his collations.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, Arthur Ayres 1830 births 1887 deaths Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge People from Birmingham, West Midlands Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century British educators People from Stotfold