Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...scribe of Cod. B betrays a certain consciousness of an omission by leaving blank the column immediately following the end of St. Mark, this being the only perfectly vacant column throughout the whole volume. Cod. N presents no such peculiarity; but Cod. L (Paris 62, of the eighth century) exhibits the passage in such a shape as plainly shows that its writer regarded w. 9--20 as of very questionable authenticity. About thirty of the later or cursive manuscripts, though they contain the whole passage, either mark it with an asterisk, or append scholia which throw more or less doubt upon it, as an integral part of the GospeL In fact, after having been cited as genuine by the Fathers of the second and third centuries, from Irenaeus downwards, the difficulty of harmonising their narrative with the other Gospels (a circumstance which ought to plead in their favour) brought suspicion upon these verses, and caused their omission in some copies seen by Busebius (Quaestiones ad Marinum), whose influence over the Scripture codices of his age we have seen to be very considerable (see p. xxxvii). The omission of iv ijera in Eph. i. 1 after roitr oZaiv is another point in which Codd. N B (attended by the margin of Cod. 67, B's close ally) stand alone among manuscripts, and in both the words are added by later hands: in Cod. N the corrector is C, of the seventh century. This shorter reading was in the manuscripts used by Origen, who resorts to a mystical interpretation of the expression rota-ovuiv, and very possibly in those of the heretic Marcion a century earlier: it was known and approved by Basil in the middle of the fourth century, both from tradition, and as found by him in the oldest copies (tv rots nakaiois T v dvriypdcjxov): Jerome, as usual, repeats Origen ..."
