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POSTSCRIPT TO PREFACE

TO the foregoing acknowledgments of help received I have now, on the eve of publication, to add my very sincere thanks to two eminent Cambridge scholars, who have given me the benefit of their judgment on certain parts of the section ‘Text,’ as printed in the proof, of the Introduction; namely, to the Regius Professor of Divinity, Dr Swete, for a valuable criticism of my reference to Theodore of Mopsuestia, which I have amended accordingly; and to Professor Burkitt for a note which he has most kindly contributed on the lost text of the Old Syriac and also for information regarding the Sahidic Version.

One other avowal I would make in anticipation of a comparison that may not improbably be instituted.

I have purposely refrained from looking at the Dean of Westminster's edition of the Epistle, published since the death of Bishop Westcott.

J. M. S.

June 1906.

INTRODUCTION TO THE EPISTLE

I. TEXT.

THE Epistle is contained in whole or in part in the following sources:
1. GREEK MSS.

(i) Primary uncials: a , Cod. Sin., saec. IV. Complete. A, Cod. Alex., saec. V. Complete. B, Cod. Vatic., saec. IV. Complete. C, Cod. Ephraemi, saec. V. Contains Eph. 2:18-4:17. D 2, Cod. Claromontanus, saec. VI. Complete. (Graeco-Latin.) [E 3, Cod. Sangermanensis, saec. IX. A transcript of D 2.]
[F
2, Cod. Augiensis, saec. IX. A transcript of G 3.]

G 3, Cod. Boernerianus, saec. IX. Complete. (Graeco-Latin.)

(ii) Secondary uncials: K 2, Cod. Mosquensis, saec. IX. Complete. L 2, Cod. Angelicus, saec. IX. Complete.

P 2, Cod. Porphyrianus, saec. IX. Complete. O b, Cod. Mosquensis, saec. VI. Contains Eph. 4:1-18. Y , Cod. Athous Laurae, saec. VIII.IX. Complete. [To these must be added the Damascus Palimpsest of Eph. 4:21 ajlhvqeia —5:4, described by Von Soden, Schr. d. N. T. 1. 244.]

The following unique readings of the chief MSS. illustrate their character.

Unique readings:


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