The Expositor's Greek Testament (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...theological treatises instead of with the other N.T. writings" (Gregory i. 121). C lacks i. 1, iii. 19-v. 14, vii. 14-17, viii. 5-ix. 16, x. 10-xi. 3, xiv. 13-xviii. 2, xix. 5-end. P is defective in xvi. 12-xvii. 1, ' xix. 21-xx. 9, xxii. 6-end. MAC reflect a fairly uniform text, which seems to have been influenced by an older uncorrected text allied to that underlying the vulgate. Hence, as N in the Apocalypse, owing to its eccentric element, is not of exceptional value by itself (though supported by the cursives 95 and 36), AC vg. form an important group of witnesses, to which the minuscule 95 (like 68 and 38) and Syr. seem allied. The relation of P and Q is less obvious. Their differences (they agree 1 Relatively high among the secondary documents, but woefully inferior to the uncials. On the performance of Erasmus, see Delitzsch's Handschrifte Funde, i. (1861), pp. 17 f., with A. Bludau's essay on the Erasmus editions of the N.T. in Bardenhewer's Biblische Studien, vii. 5. 2 To avoid confusion with the B of Codex Vaticanus, it is better to cite this codex Vaticanus as Q (so, after Tregelles, Weiss, Haussleiter, Bousset, Swetc) than as B (Tisch.) or BJ (WH, Simcox). only in about fifty cases against MAC) point either to two recensions of some older original (Bousset) or to a text based again upon some older revised text (Weiss). Q approximates rather to the cursives in text But its archetype usually tallies with MAC, and is allied somehow to the text behind the so-called "Coptic"1 version cf. Goussen's "Theolog. Studia, fasciculus I." Apoc, S. Johannis apostoli versio sahidica, 1895, pp. iv.-vii.), like a small group of cursives (Bousset's Q rel.). In no one MS. or group of MSS. is a neutral or fairly accurate...