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In the following Notes the Syriac version of the Four Minor Catholic
Epistles, as above printed, is assumed to be the original (or " unrevised ")
Philoxenian of A.D. 508 ;
of which assumption the grounds are fully
stated in the Introduction (supr.).
In them, accordingly, it is referred
to as " Philox. " (or " Phx."), or (in its relation to the underlying Greek)
as S ;
while the codices of the Syriac text are distinguished by their
proper numerals (see pp. 1, 2, supr.), or, as in the footnotes to the
Greek, by the notation S lt $ 2 ,
&c.
The codices classed as the "earlier" group are 1, 2, 9, 12, 14; those
of the "later" group are 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 17. The remaining nine are
of intermediate but unequal age and value.