FHA Scrivener was one the greatest Textual Critics to ever live. On Christmas of 1880, he finished his preface for his most influential work. In this video 140 years later, we explore the views and legacy of this great man!
For article mentioned: http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol07/Robinson2002.html
For his 6 lectures here: https://archive.org/details/cu31924090062856/page/n167/mode/2up
His view on John 8 and the woman caught in adultery seemed to change. In his 6 Lectures he express considerable hesitation about the passage.
But later in life he says:
“The arguments in its favour, internal even more than external, are so powerful, that we can scarcely be brought to think it an unauthorized appendage to the writings of one, who in another of his inspired books, deprecated so solemnly the adding to or taking away from the blessed testimony he was commissioned to bear (Apoc. xxii. 18, 19)... Why should not St. John have inserted in this second edition both the amplification in ch. v. 3, 4, and this most edifying and eminently Christian narrative?” From his Plain Introduction to Textual Criticism.
He also in a footnote in the same work references a vigorous defence of this passage by Dean Burgon, but for some reason says that he is not at liberty to quote.