John Mill was an Oxford scholar and Anglican clergyman whose 1707 Greek New Testament gathered variant evidence accumulated over decades.
Setting: Church of England and Oxford scholarship.
John Mill was an Oxford scholar and Anglican clergyman whose 1707 Greek New Testament gathered variant evidence accumulated over decades. The text above the apparatus largely retained the Stephanus form, while the notes exposed readers to a scale of variation that became a turning point in later controversy.
His record must distinguish the printed base text from the evidence in the apparatus. Claims that Mill either destroyed confidence in Scripture or merely repeated the received text both miss the structure of the edition.
Bibliological positions
Mill retained a received printed text while greatly enlarging the documented evidence of transmission. His work raised the question of how that evidence should be judged without yet supplying the later eclectic answer.
Qualifications and disputes
Variant counts depend on what is counted, and the presence of a reading in an apparatus is not editorial adoption.
The precise number and novelty of Mill’s variants and his intended critical principles are often overstated.
Sources
- Internet Archive — Novum Testamentum — Digitized edition
- Internet Archive creator search — Works and catalogues
Principal works
- Novum Testamentum Graecum (1707); legacy
WRK-1103; EDT; Ready to link after authority review
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
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- Record
- PER-3057
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
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Chris Thomas, “John Mill,” PER-3057, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
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