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A
47
In f,
the above is repeated : but om the words in brackets ;
ins O
before JjOlOa ; writes 1\Z (= 89) for the number ; }**) (with a) ;
) for A-], >.>-/)>.
(" [Now] there was in the Gospel of the holy Bishop Mara, in the
eighty-ninth canon,f a chapter which peculiarly belongs to John in his
Gospel and in other
;
copies [the like of] this passage is not found.")
In /, the same is amplified, as follows :
101 oo
]
^i.n A ;.Vr>] A.*) >^
]Alk)j
(' There was found in the Gospel of Mara, Bishop of Amid, who was
versed in the Greek tongue (as Zacharia the Rhetorician and Bishop of
Melitene has recorded), in the eighty-ninth canon of the Gospel,f a
chapter which peculiarly belongs to John, and is not found in all
copies neither have we seen any one of the commentators that has
;
said anything concerning it. Yet we have judged
it well to write the
whole text of the word in its place.")
* Also in Syr.-Vatic. 24 (cited by Assemani, Biblioth. Orient., t. n, pp. 52, 53)
with slight variation from h. Cp. Mai, Scriptt. Vett. Nova Coll., t. x., p. 355.
t The 88th Section of St. John ends with ovirw 6A.TjA.u0fi 77 Spa aiVrou (viii. 20) ;
and accordingly Barsalibi introduces this "chapter" immediately after his
comment on that verse. See Introduction (supr.) on the place of the Pericope.
J This too is given by Assemani (ib.), from Syr.-Vat., 2; Clem.-Vat. Syr., 16;
with variations, of which the noteworthy are for :
j^t]^ rN\Vjp<
for 2UL^?Z|, and (which is important) fj] without p following.