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INTRODUCTION
retained the text of his basis, and how far he emended it on the
authority of his auxiliary Greek text. (See
further in Sect, xxi.)
b. Shown by agreement in singular readings.
It is possible, no doubt, that the extensive textual affinity thus
ascertained may be in part due to agreements in text between
Thomas's Greek copy and the copy which the Philoxenian translator
followed. But though such agreements are not improbable in cases
where the affinity shows itself in readings which (as those of our list) are
attested by existing Greek MSS, there are over and above these not a
few examples of coincidence between our two Versions in readings
weakly or doubtfully supported by Greek authority, some even where
our Philoxenian and the Harklensian stand together against all Greek
authority whatever. About twenty such are recorded in the Apparatus
of our Greek Text (infr.) such as 2 Pet. i. 3
} (omission of fjfuv),
i. 20
for eVtAvcrscos),
iii. 2 (Sia prefixed to ruv aTroo-rdXajv) ;
3 Joh. 10
for ib. Trotet),
15 (insertion
of eKacrrov before KO.T' oi'O/xa,
and
avrov after it) ;
Jud. 9 (09
for ore),
ib. 18 (eV do-eySetav for ran/ acre/Seiuji').
Of these and such as these the natural explanation
is that they are
textual individualisms, possibly errors, of the prior translation, retained
by
the reviser.
c. Also by the Apparatus
attached to the Harklensian Text.
1. Evidence less obvious, and more limited, yet more distinct where
it exists, is to be found in the asterisks (#) above referred to, attached
to certain words and phrases in the Harklensian text. It may safely
be assumed that Thomas in using this sign was led by the famous
example of Origen in his Hexapla, and that he thus marked whatever
in his text was not found in his Greek exemplar, but inserted on
some other authority. Sometimes the other authority so referred to
may be a second Greek copy for in one or two cases the
; sign relates
to nothing found in the Philoxenian text. But in most places where
they occur they are capable of being explained as references to this
text ;
and not a few of them refuse to admit of any other explanation,
inasmuch as in it, and it alone, are to be found the word or words
on which the Harklensian sets this mark. Thus (2 Pet. i.)
no authority
except the Philoxenian vouches for the insertion of v/uas (after Ka0t'errr]