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{AuCU.! ^oA^jarc'
[Si. JOH. VIII. 10, 11 VIII.
^01 n . ^ooj)) QJOI l^L ZAj oil '-So ii
Oil
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has Qn*|. I ^DQJ>>] So g\ 15, ^ QJ>>. | (ll)
So #: 15 seems to write *^DQ2)Ol2 (?).
In another MS (Bodl. Or. 625, Catal. 27), a copy
of the Peshitta
Gospels written in Malabar, A.D. 1801, the same passage in substance,
but with much verbal variation, is inserted at the end, with a note
assigning it to " section 8," after the words " Search and see ... no
prophet" (St. Joh. vii. 52).
On examination it proves to be a fairly
accurate rendering into Syriac of the Peri cope as it stands in the Latin
Vulgate and may therefore safely be set down as the work of some
;
ecclesiastic, or disciple, of the Roman Church in Malabar (probably
dating from the Synod of Diamper, 1599), and not as a relic of the
traditions of the Syro-Indian Church of the " Christians of St. Thomas."
It is thus of no value as a witness to the text, and is not inserted here.
The version of the same, included in the polyglot N.T. of Elias
Hutter (1599), is hardly worthy of mention.
II.
A distinct form of this narrative, differing in substance as well as in
diction from all others (Greek or Syriac), corresponding, though with
much deviation, with St. Joh. viii. 2-11, is found in ms li
(Ecclesiastical
History of Zacharias Rhetor) and in ; t,
an extract from the same in a
Catena; and again in /(Commentary of Barsalibi on the Gospels), where
it stands (among the comments on St. Joh. viii.)
before the Paul-form
(supr.), and is given on the authority of Zacharias. All these state
that it was found and translated by Bishop Mara.
SUPERSCRIPTIONS, &c,
In these MSS it is prefaced as follows : ^-.? ]ooi