03. CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

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The Traditional Text—established by evidence—especially before St. Chrysostom—corruption—early rise of it—Galilee of the Gentiles—Syrio-Low-Latin source—various causes and forms of corruption . pp. 1-9

CHAPTER I.

§ 1. Modern re-editing—difference between the New Testament and other books—immense number of copies—ordinary causes of error—Doctrinal causes. § 2. Elimination of weakly attested readings—nature of inquiry. § 3. Smaller blemishes in MSS. unimportant except when constant. § 4. Most mistakes arose from inadvertency: many from unfortunate design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 10-23 CHAPTER II.

ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION. I. PURE ACCIDENT.

§ 1. St. John x. 29. § 2. Smaller instances, and Acts xx. 24. § 3. St. Luke ii. 14. § 4. St. Mark xv. 6; vii. 4; vi. 22. § 5. St. Mark viii. 1; vii. 14—St. John xiii. 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 24-35 CHAPTER III.

ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION. II. HOMOEOTELEUTON.

St. Luke ii. 15—St. John vi. 11; vi. 55—St. Matt. xxiii. 14; xix. 9—St. Luke xvi. 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 36-41 xii

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CHAPTER IV.

ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION. III. FROM WRITING IN UNCIALS.

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§ 1. St. John iv. 35-36 § 2. St. Luke xv. 17—St. John v. 44.

§ 3. Acts xxvii. 14—St. John iv. 15—St. Luke xvii. 37—St. Matt. xxii.

23—and other passages. § 4. St. John v. 4—St. Luke xxiii. 11—

St. Matt. iv. 23. § 5. 2 St. Peter i. 21—Heb. vii. 1. § 6. St. Matt.

xxvii. 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 42-55

CHAPTER V.

ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION. IV. ITACISM.

§ 1. Various passages—St. John xli. 1, 2; 41. § 2. Rev. i. 5—Other passages—St. Mark vii. 19. § 3. St. Mark iv. 8. § 4. Titus ii. 5. pp. 56-66

CHAPTER VI.

ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION. V. LITURGICAL

INFLUENCE.

§ 1. Lectionaries of the Church—Liturgical influence—Antiquity of the Lectionary System. § 2. St. John xiv. 1—Acts iii. 1—Last Twelve

Verses of St. Mark. § 3. St. Luke vii. 31; ix. 1—Other passages.

§ 4. St. Mark xv. 28. § 5. Acts iii. 1—St. Matt xiii. 44; xvii. 23.

§ 6. St. Matt. vi. 13 (doxology in the Lord's Prayer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 67-88 CHAPTER VII.

I. HARMONISTIC INFLUENCE.

§ 1. St. Mark xvi. 9. § 2. St. Luke xxiv. 1—other examples.

§ 3. Chiefly intentional—Diatessarons—St. Matt. xvii. 25, 26—Harmonized narratives—Other examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 89-99 CHAPTER VIII.

II. ASSIMILATION.

§ 1. Transfer from one Gospel to another. § 2. Not entirely intentional—Various passages. § 3. St. John xvi. 16. § 4. St. John xiii.

21-25. § 5. St. Mark i. 1, 2 Other examples—St. Matt. xii. 10 (St. Luke xiv. 3)—and others. § 6. St. Mark vi. 11. § 7. St. Mark xiv. 70 pp. 100-122

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CHAPTER IX.

III. ATTRACTION.

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§ 1. St. John vi. 71 and xiii. 26. § 2. Acts xx. 24—2 Cor. iii. 3 pp. 123-127

CHAPTER X.

IV. OMISSION.

§ 1. Omissions a class of their own—Exemplified from the Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark—Omission the besetting fault of transcribers.

§ 2. The onus probandi rests upon omitters. § 3. St. Luke vi. 1; and other omissions. § 4. St. Matt. xxi. 44. § 5. St. Matt. xv. 8.

§ 6. St. Matt. v. 44—Reply to the Reviewer in the Guardian.

§ 7. Shorter Omissions . . . . . . . . pp. 128-156

CHAPTER XI.

V. TRANSPOSITION.

§ 1. St. Mark i. 5; ii. 3—Other instances. § 2. St. Luke xiii. 9; xxiv. 7. § 3. Other examples—St. John v. 27—Transpositions often petty, but frequent . . . . . . . . . . pp. 157-163

VI. SUBSTITUTION.

§ 4. If taken with Modifications, a large class—Various instances pp. 164-165

VII. ADDITION.

§ 5. The smallest of the four—St. Luke vi. 4—St. Matt. xx. 28.

§ 6. St. Matt. viii. 13; xxiv. 36—St. Mark iii. 16—Other examples pp. 166-171

CHAPTER XII.

VIII. GLOSSES.

§ 1. Not so numerous as has been supposed—St. Matt. xiii. 36—

St. Mark vii. 3. § 2. St. Luke ix. 23. § 3. St. John vi. 15; xiii. 24;

xx. 18—St. Matt. xxiv. 31. § 4. St. John xviii. 14—St. Mark vi. 11.

§ 5. St. Mark xiv. 41—St. John ix. 22. § 6. St. John xii. 7.

§ 7. St. John xvii. 4. § 8. St. Luke i. 66. § 9. St. Luke v. 7—

Acts xx. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 172-190 xiv

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CHAPTER XIII.

IX. CORRUPTION BY HERETICS.

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§ 1. This class very evident—Began in the earliest times—Appeal to what is earlier still—Condemned in all ages and countries. § 2. The earliest depravers of the Text—Tatian's Diatessaron. § 3. Gnostics—St. John i. 3-4. § 4. St. John x. 14, 15. § 5. Doctrinal—Matrimony—St. Matt. i. 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 191-210 CHAPTER XIV.

X. CORRUPTION BY THE ORTHODOX.

§ 1. St. Luke xix. 41; ii. 40. § 2. St. John viii. 40; and i 18.

§ 3. 1 Cor. xv. 47. § 4. St. John iii. 13. § 5. St. Luke ix. 54-56 pp. 211-231

PERICOPE DE ADULTERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 232-265 DR. HORT'S THEORY OF CONFLATION AND THE NEUTRAL TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 266-286 INDEX OF SUBJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 287-288 INDEX OF PASSAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DISCUSSED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pp. 289-290 THE CAUSES OF THE

CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT

OF THE HOLY GOSPELS.