Benjamin Wills Newton confused with John Newton

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Steven Avery

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  - the grapevine which concerned Tischendorf about Simonides en route to St. Catherine's in 1859

Has zero effect where Sinaiticus and Athous agree on a text that provides evidence of being late, medieval. post- Palatine. This is all covered in Tischendorf followed by Donaldson. Donaldson was working on invalid assumptions about the permissible influence of Latin in the early Hermas text...
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TwoNoteableCorruptions said:
Newton (who showed Simonides the Tischendorf facsimiles) were Quaker's, or a Quaker early in life.
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That was true for Benjamin Wills Newton (1807-1899), but there was some confusion, and the one who showed Simonides the facsimiles was said by Tregelles to be John Newton, Liverpool surgeon, religion/denomination unknown.

The Journal of sacred literature, ed. by J. Kitto. (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=kR82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA489

Tregelles
The third stands thus—‘Newton (a former Fellow of Exeter?), co-religionist and friend of Tregelles., Now, the Mr. Newton whose name has appeared in the matter is Mr. John Newton, surgeon, of Liverpool, of whoso religious opinions I know nothing, and whom I never saw; though Simonides (or his assistant) called him (Guardian, Sept. 5) ‘a friend of Dr. TregeUes.' This Mr. John Newton was evidently confounded by the writer with my friend Mr. Benjamin Wills Newton, who was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. The expression 'co-religionist of Tregelles' is connected with the description given of me,—‘Tregelles, a Plymouth brother and critic:' had this been all true, I might still have been a good witness; but the fact is. that though I five at Plymouth, I have nothing to do with those now called 'Plymouth Brethren.' their opinions or practices. This mode of treating.
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There is additional material on John Newton in communication with Hodgkin and Farrer in 1907, from Luciano Canfora.
 
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