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INTRODUCTION
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POSTSCRIPT. The Pericope de Adultera.
Concerning the Syriac MSS in which the passage, John vii. 53
viii.
12, is to be found, sufficient particulars will be found on p. 3 infr. (see
also pp. 41 49, 87 92).
The facts may be summed up
as follows :
1. Its translation into Syriac, in the form in which it appears in
Walton's Polyglot and subsequent Syriac New Testaments (distinguished
as I., p. 41 infr.),
is ascribed in some copies, including the earliest, to
"the Abbot Paul, who found it in Alexandria" (see pp. 41, 42 infr.),
to whom we
presumably the Paul of Telia of the early seventh century,
owe the Syro-Hexaplar Old Testament (see Introduction to Part II,
infr.).*
Of the eight copies of it (p. 3 infr.), cited in the Apparatus
which accompanies the text (Codd. a, 6, c, d, e, f, 10, 16), one only
(16) reads it in the Gospel text (Peshitta), one only (b) as part of
a Lection from the Gospel (Peshitta), one only (e) in the Gospel
text (Harklensian). The rest include it as an extract (as/, 10, 15),
or (as c) append it to, or (as d) set it on the margin of, the Fourth
Gospel (Harkl.), or finally (as a, the oldest) write it on a fly-leaf of an
Another recension of the narrative,
early MS of the Peshitta Gospels. f
infr., p. 45, differing only in wording, is found in Codd. g and 15 ;
former of which includes it in the Peshitta text of the Gospel, the
latter inserts it on a separate leaf attached to a copy of the Catholic
Epistles.
it
the
Of the above, the two (Codd. g and 16), which alone treat
as part of the Peshitta Gospel text, are of the seventeenth century.
2. The story in a form substantially different, of which the Syriac text
is preserved in the eighth Book (ch. vii.) of the Chronicle which bears
the name of Zacharias of Mitylene,J is given (distinguished as II) at
p. 46 infr., from Codd. h and i, of which the former is a copy of the
Chronicle, the latter an extract from the same. In Cod. / also (a copy
of Bar-Salibi's Comm. on the Gospels),
it is cited in extenso after the
comments on Joh. followed vii.,
by the other (Paul-) form of the same.
* Or else his contemporary, the " Abbot Paul," who in A.D. 624, in Cyprus,
translated into Syriac the works of Gregory Nazianzen. See Assemani (B.O., t. i,
p. 171), who calls him Bishop of Cyprus ; Wright, CataL, p. 423 ;
also his Syriac
Lit., p. 135.
'
t For the history of its appearance in print, and of its admission into the
printed Syriac New Testament, see under Cod. 10 (p. Iv supr.).
J Printed by Land, Anecdota Syr., t. in. Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Brooks have
published an English translation of the Chronicle (1899), to which the latter has
prefixed an important Introduction.