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INTRODUCTION
Ixix
then, of tampering with the text of our MSS with the purpose of
conforming
it to the Harklensian, they occur not in the A-group, but in
some of the later MSS which are intermediate in text between it and
the B-group, and give to the latter only a partial
and intermittent
support, namely, Codd. 5, 11, 13, 19, 20.* Of these, 11, 13, 20 (good
copies written with scholarly care) are of the later part of the fifteenth
century; 19 is a very recent transcript of unknown origin; 5 alone
has a claim, though a doubtful one, to be assigned to the twelfth, and
the Harklensian note found in it is
by a later hand.
SECTION XX.
Summary.
On these grounds then (explained more fully in detail in the Supplemental
Notes) I submit that we are bound to reject the theory which
attributes to editorial manipulation the large agreement of
the A-text
with the Harklensian. That agreement
is due to the fidelity (1)
of
the early caligraphers who produced the A-group of
the Harklensian reviser in reproducing
original Philoxenian,
MSS, and (2) of
all that he retained of the
so that in his Version we have the best, and (by
two centuries) the earliest, witness to the authentic Philoxenian text.
And in confident reliance on the basis (confirmed by this attestation)
furnished by our earlier codices, I present the text constructed on it,
as a restoration, complete so far as the extant evidence warrants, of
the text of these Epistles as it came, just fourteen centuries ago, from
the translator's hands.
SECTION XXI. The Underlying Greek Text.
The Syriac Text, thus restored, is represented
with the closest
attainable exactness in the Greek Text subjoined to it.
By reference
to this, and to the appended foot-notes, which contain an ample
Apparatus Criticus of the various readings of the Greek, a reader
though unacquainted with Syriac may obtain an accurate knowledge
of the textual evidence yielded by our Version, and of the relation
which the Greek Text represented by
it bears to that of
the principal
* See pp. 101 and footnote, 103, ISOinfr. Other instances are found in Cod. 15,
which is one (though the earliest) of the B-group, and exhibits Harklensian readings
throughout, and moreover gives 2 Pet. in the Harkl. version.