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( b ) The Harclean ( Philoxenian ) Syriac. [‘A Version which if it survived would be among our most valuable authorities is the Old Syriac. For the Old Syriac text of the Pauline Epistles our chief extant authority is the running Commentary of S. Ephraim , preserved only in an Armenian translation: a Latin translation of this Armenian was issued by the Mechitarists in
1893. In using this text for critical purposes allowance must always be made for the influence of the Armenian Vulgate upon the Armenian translator of S. Ephraim.’ F. C.
B.]

iii. Egyptian: ( a ) Memphitic or Bohairic.

Complete.

Complete save for minor lacunae in ch. 6.

( b ) Thebaic or Sahidic.

( c ) Bashmuric.

The Epistle is found in the later versions, Armenian, Ethiopic , and (with lacunae 5:11-16, 5:30-6:8) Gothic.

3. PATRISTIC COMMENTARIES AND QUOTATIONS.

Ante-Nicene Commentaries. ‘A small portion of Origne's Commentaries is virtually all that remains to us of the continuous commentaries on the New Testament belonging to this period; they include—many verses of—Ephesians.’ (Westcott and Hort, Introduction , p. 88.)

Post-Nicene Commentaries and continuous series of homilies written before the middle of the fifth century:—

‘Theodore of Mopsuestia’—‘in a Latin translation.’ ‘Chrysostom's Homilies.’ ‘Theodoret’:—founded on Theodore and Chrysostom. ‘Cyril of Alexandria’:—fragments. ‘Fragments by other writers’—in Catenae. (id. ib. )

Account is also taken of Quotations made by Marcion (as reported by Tertullian or Epiphanius); Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen; Tertullian, Cyprian and Novatian; Peter of Alexandria, Methodius, and Eusebius; Lucifer, Hilary, and Victorinus Afer.

[The Latin version of the Epistle incorporated in the Latin translation of the Commentary of Theodore of Mopsuestia contains many ‘ante-Hieronymian renderings’ (Swete, Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Minor Epistles of St Paul , vol. I. Intr. p. xliv), and is illustrated by the following ‘Old Latin renderings’ collected by Dr Swete.


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