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INTRODUCTION
more exactly by "JQAlD, retains as an alternative the )OlS of the
A-text which the B-text omits. A like case occurs, 2 Pet. iii. 10,
where the Harklensian, though in its text it adopts the rival reading of
some Greek authorities (/cara/ca^o-eTai for the better attested
which the Philoxenian follows), on its margin
records the
of the latter, but in so doing confirms our A-text by omitting the
negative JJ ( = ov\) which the B-group interpolates
before it. Thus
these two Harklensian notes prove not only (as pointed out in a previous
Section) that the translator had the Philoxenian before him, but
that he had it in the form exhibited by group A, not by group B.
is worth while in passing to remark that in the case of this last-cited
passage, the facts are against Professor Merx's theory in three respects.
For the A-reading (cvpe^aerat without the ofy of B) (1) cannot be
borrowed from the Harklensian, which in its text substitutes
It
Ka.Ta.Ka.rj~
o-erou for evpc^rjo-crai
:
(2) is not contradicted, but supported, by the
Arabic in omitting the negative : (3) is actually attested by the
Harklensian margin where it is placed as an alternative to the reading
of the text.*
Finally, an examination of the MSS discloses other
record as bearing on the matter in hand.
facts worthy of
4. Where the MSS of the A-group show traces, as here and there
happens, of the corrector's hand, the corrections are in the direction
not of the Harklensian, but of the B-text. Even the earliest and best
of them, Cod. 1, has been so dealt with in two places, where a later
hand has introduced B-readings
: 2 Pet. i. 4, f'^^1 (
= rt/xas) ;
and
so 2 Pet iii. 1, ]>.2X ( = KaX^v).f Similarly in Cod. 2, the B-interpolation
(j ( = oux) has been placed in the margin of 2 Pet. iii. 10.J Also
Cod. 20, which, though of fifteenth century, has a text largely coinciding
with A, in three places where it exhibits A-readings inserts the B-
readings in its margin ;
2 Pet. ii. 17 (text, |K\v marg., ^iik)
: ii. 18
(text, WOyt ;
marg., : iii. 16 (text, Ualoi ; marg., ]A*r*)-
la*.Q^
5. Where instances are detected, as admittedly happens now and
* Note that, e contra, the very recent Cod. 19 inserts on its margin the Syr.
equivalent for the KaTOKOTjo-erat of Harkl.
t
See pp. 10, 18, 98, 113 infr.
J See pp. 20, 115 infr. See pp. 142, 143 infr.