Daniel Mace (died c. 1753) was an English

textual critic Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may range i ...

of the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

. He was a Presbyterian minister at Newbury, Berkshire, from 1727 until his death. He anticipated some conclusions of the textual critics of a century later. His results were incorporated in ''The New Testament in Greek and English'', 2 vols., 1729, to which

Leonard Twells Leonard Twells (1684?–1742) was an English cleric and theological writer. Life His father John was Master of Newark School. He received his education at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1704. In 1722 Twells was presented t ...

issued a reply defending the ''

Textus Receptus The (Latin for 'received text') is the succession of printed Greek New Testament texts starting with Erasmus' ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' (1516) and including the editions of Robert Estienne, Stephanus, Theodore Beza, Beza, the House of Elzevir ...

''.

Life

Mace took charge of the presbyterian congregation at Newbury, Berkshire, preaching his first sermon there on 5 March 1727; he succeeded Joseph Standen, who had joined the

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. In 1729 his edition of the New Testament appeared anonymously. Mace died about Christmas 1753, and was buried in his meeting-house, near the pulpit. He left a widow, a son and a daughter.

Works

Mace published one major work ''The New Testament in Greek and English, containing the Original Text corrected from the Authority of the most authentic Manuscripts'', 1729, 2 vols, (anon.) It has been attributed wrongly to William Mace. The dedication to

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, at that time lord chancellor, refers to King's ''History of the Apostles' Creed'' (1702). For the materials of his text he relied on John Mill. Critical and historical notes were given as footnotes, or appended to the different books. Mace's edition was roughly handled by advocates of the received text, especially by Leonard Twells.

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treated it with very unwise contempt. Readings of the ''anonymus Anglus'' were discussed in the later volumes of

Johann Christoph Wolf Johann Christoph Wolf (February 21, 1683, at Wernigerode – July 25, 1739, at Hamburg) was a German Christian Hebraist, polymath, and collector of books. He studied at Wittenberg, and traveled in Holland and England in the interest of science, c ...

's ''Curæ Philologicæ et Criticæ in Novum Testamentum'' 1725–35. In the version, unusual typography (seen also in Charles Bulkley) was added to odd vocabulary. Mace published also ''XIX Sermons'' (1751). The list of subscribers included David Hartley and

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References

* Cross, F. L., ed. (1959) ''The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church''. London: Oxford University Press; p. 840

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