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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
| PAR. | PAGES | |
| B. 177—180. The neutral text and its preservation | 126—130 | |
| 177. | The patristic evidence for Non-Western Pre-Syrian readings chiefly Alexandrian, and the evidence of versions in their favour chiefly Egyptian; as was natural from the character of the Alexandrian church: | 126 |
| 178. | but they often have other scattered Pre-Syrian attestation, Greek Latin and Syriac, chiefly in the very best Western documents; shewing that the Non-Western text in remote times was not confined to Alexandria: | 127 |
| 179. | and Alexandria can hardly have furnished all the Non-Western readings found in Fathers and Versions of the fourth and fifth centuries | 128 |
| 180. | Fallacy of the term 'Alexandrian' as applied to all Non-Western Pre-Syrian texts and documents; still more, to Pre-Syrian texts or documents generally | 129 |
| C. 181—184. Alexandrian characteristics | 130—132 | |
| 181. | Existence of a distinct class of truly Alexandrian readings | 130 |
| 182. | Their derivation from the rival Pre-Syrian readings attested by Internal Evidence. Their documentary attestation, and the circumstances which obscure it | 130 |
| 183. | Temperate forms of incipient paraphrase and of skilful assimilation, with careful attention to language, and without bald paraphrase or interpolation from extraneous sources, the chief Alexandrian characteristics | 131 |
| 184. | Instructiveness of ternary variations in which a single cause has occasioned two independent changes. Western and Alexandrian. Alexandrian readings sometimes adopted by the Syrian text | 132 |
| D. 185—187. Syrian characteristics | 132—135 | |
| 185. | The Syrian text due to a 'recension' in the strict sense, being formed out of its three chief predecessors, used simultaneously, with an elaborateness which implies deliberate criticism | 132 |
| 186. | Its probable origin the inconvenient conflict of the preceding texts, each of which had claims to respect; the only guide in the choice of readings being probably a rough kind of Intrinsic Probability | 133 |
| 187. | Lucidity and completeness the chief qualities apparently desired: little omitted out of the earlier texts, much added, but chiefly expletives and unimportant matter: the general result to introduce smoothness and diminish force | 134 |
| Section III. Sketch of Postnicene Textual History (188—198) | 135—145 | |
| A. 188—190. The two stages of the Syrian text | 135—139 | |
| 188. | Probable connexion between the Greek Syrian revision or 'recension' and the Syriac revision to which the Syriac Vulgate is due | 135 |
