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INTRODUCTION
Greek witnesses severally especially the seven available uncials
(NABCKLP) and to that of the Latin and other primary
Versions.
For my own guidance in this part of
my work, I have made a Table
of the passages in which the seven vary appreciably inter se (neglecting
variations of such nature as to be incapable of reproduction in Syriac),
and have noted the agreements of
the Philoxenian and the Harklensian severally.
each MS with the texts attested by
It is unnecessary to
print this Table at length ;
but it is worth while to state the results
it yields, which are as follows.
1. The passages it includes are in number 115. In these, the instances
in which the Philoxenian text agrees with each several uncial
are : With N, 65 ;
with A, 60 ;
with B, 53 ;
with C, 44 ;
with K, 51 ;
with L, 55 ;
with P, 51. It is to be borne in mind that C lacks 2 John,
and that but for this defect its figure would presumably exceed 50.
Setting it aside then as doubtful, we learn that, of the rest, N and A
support our text in rather more than half the 115 places; B and the
the highest number
three later MSS (K L P) in rather less than half,
of instances of agreement being markedly with N, the lowest with
K and P.
2. Moreover, the important result discloses itself (briefly stated by
anticipation above in Section xi, a, p. xxxix), that the agreements of
our Philoxenian with the Harklensian are more numerous than with
any of these Greek texts, being 76 in all, about two-thirds of the 115
passages recorded in my Table. Besides these, it has been pointed
out above (xi, &, p. xl) that there are some twenty places in which
Philoxenian and Harklensian agree together against the consent of
the semi-uncials and all other Greek authority. These facts, taken
together, demonstrate forcibly the closeness of the textual affinity
that subsists between these Versions.
To estimate the comparative value of the texts followed by them
severally, and to investigate the character of each, would be an
interesting task ;
December, 1908.
but it lies outside the range of this Introduction.