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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
PAR. | PAGES | |
B. 201—212. Texts found in Greek MSS | 148—155 | |
201. | Preliminary | 148 |
202. | D a Western MS of the Gospels and Acts | 148 |
203. | D2G3 Western MSS of St Paul's Epistles. No purely Alexandrian MSS extant | 149 |
204. | B Pre-Syrian, not Alexandrian, nor (except within narrow limits) Western | 150 |
205. | א Pre-Syrian, with large Western and Alexandrian elements | 151 |
206. | All other extant MSS mixed, and partially or wholly Syrian: three heads of difference in respect of mixture | 151 |
207. | The mixed text of A: Syrian predominance in the Gospels of A, not in the other books: affinity of A with the Latin Vulgate | 152 |
208. | The mixed text of C | 152 |
209. | Various mixed texts of other uncial MSS of the Gospels, | 152 |
210. | and of the other books; | 153 |
211. | also of some cursive MSS of the Gospels, | 154 |
212. | and of the other books | 154 |
C. 213—219. Texts found in Versions | 155—159 | |
213. | Mixed Latin texts | 155 |
214. | The Old Syriac Pre-Syrian, chiefly (as far as known) Western: the Vulgate Syriac incompletely Syrian | 156 |
215. | The Harklean Syriac chiefly Syrian: its secondary ancient element | 156 |
216. | Peculiar mixture in the Jerusalem Syriac | 157 |
217. | The Egyptian Versions Pre-Syrian, predominantly neutral and also Alexandrian, with Western elements of uncertain date: the ÆEthiopic partly the same, partly Syrian | 157 |
218. | The Armenian mixed, having various very early as well as Syrian elements; the Gothic mixed, chiefly Syrian and Western, resembling the Italian Latin | 158 |
219. | General correspondence of the textual elements of versions with the dates of versions | |
D. 220—223. Texts found in Greek Fathers | 159—162 | |
220. | Compound evidence (author's text and translator's text) furnished by Greek works extant in translations, as (Latin) the treatise of Irenæus, | 159 |
221. | and various works of Origen; | |
222. | and (Syriac) the Theophania of Eusebius, and Cyril on St Luke | |
223. | Later Greek writers having texts with large Pre-Syrian elements | |
Section V. Identification and estimation of readings as belonging to the chief ancient texts (224—243) | 162—179 | |
A. 224. Nature of the process of identification | 162 | |
224. | Assignation of readings to particular ancient texts frequently possible through knowledge of the constituent elements of the attesting documents | 162 |