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of the Aug. MS dvaKeKpe/mafi^pov^ reproduced in the ed. princ); ^7^ 9 (twoSoiitopovvras,
ML avvodonropouvTa (this is a mere misprint in M's 2nd ed.; it is correct
in the ist); AVw. 5 koLv ainh, Sk eKovra k.t.X., ML Kal avrci d^ iav eKovra k.t.X.
(the ed. princ. has Kal avra 8^ eKovra, after the Aug. MS, and M supplied the missing
^a>' or af in the wrong place).
The origin of this ms therefore can hardly be disputed. It
may
safely be set aside as worthless ;
and so Pearson's argument, founded
on the unique phenomenon which it exhibits, must fall to the ground.
It will thus be seen that all the Greek Mss except four g^ (At/-
gustanus), g„ {Vatic. 859), gg {Nydprucciam/s), g^ {Consiantifiopolitaius),
with the addition perhaps of a fifth g^ ( Vatic. Reg. 30) for the greater
part of the Epistle to the Ephesians, may be discarded, as having no
independent value. Of these four g^ is the most important, and g,
comes next ;
while g^ and g^ bear on their face the signs of literary
revision, but are not without their value as subsidiary evidence in confirmation
of readings found in other authorities.
(ii)
Latin.
The date of this version is uncertain. Ussher {Po/yc. et Ign. Ep.
p. Ixxxv) hazarded the opinion that it was made in the same century
in which the Ignatian writer himself lived. This view was plainly
untenable and is retracted by Ussher himself in his table of Emendaida.
It must be remembered however that he placed the spurious
Ignatian writings themselves at the close of the sixth century (i.e. probably
two centuries or more after their proper date), so that he
was not so very wide of the mark with regard to the epoch of the
translator as he might seem at first sight. No date indeed can be
assigned to this version, except within somewhat wide limits. Of
Latin writers Gregory the Great is the earliest who is alleged as
quoting the Long recension of the Ignatian Epistles [Op. vii. p. 320,
Venet. 1770). But the very expression, 'Amen Gratia,' which he cites
is
wanting in this Latin version ;
and even if he is here quoting the
interpolated rather than the genuine letters, which is somewhat doubtful
(see III. p. 266 sq), he himself intimates that he derived his quotation
not from the epistles themselves, but from his Greek correspondent
Anastasius of Antioch, and we may even infer from his language that
he had no direct acquaintance with them. It may be presumed therefore
that at the close of the sixth century, when Gregory wrote, this
Latin version was not yet in existence. On the other hand it is
certainly quoted by Ado of Vienne (1874) more than once in his Liber
4e Festiv. Apostolorum (on xiv Kal. Mart, from Ephes. i for Onesimus,