A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I.Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
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A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
_Zeta_ on the Rosetta stone maintains its old form ([Symbol rather
like a Roman capital I]), which is indeed but the next letter
reversed. In manuscripts it receives its usual modern shape (Z),
the ends being pointed decidedly, slightly, or not at all, much
after the manner described for _epsilon_. In old copies the lower
horizontal line is a trifle curved (Cod. R, No. 5), or even both
the extreme lines (Cod. Z, No. 6, and Cod. Augiensis of St. Paul).
In such late books as Parham 18 (A.D. 980, facsim. No. 36) _Zeta_
is so large as to run far below the line, ending in a kind of
tail.
_Eta_ does not depart from its normal shape (Η) except that in
Cod. Ephraemi (No. 24) and some narrow and late uncials (e.g. Nos.
7, 36) the cross line is often more than half way up the letter.
In a few later uncials the cross line passes _outside_ the two
perpendiculars, as in the Cod. Augiensis, twenty-six times on the
photographed page of Scrivener’s edition.
_Theta_ deserves close attention. In some early inscriptions it is
found as a square, bisected horizontally ([Symbol]). On the
Rosetta stone and most others (but only in such monuments) it is a
circle, with a strong central _point_. On the Herculanean rolls
the central point is spread into a short horizontal line, yet not
reaching the circumference (No. 10, l. 8). Thence in our uncials
from the fourth to the sixth century the line becomes a horizontal
diameter to a true circle (Codd. Vatican., Sinait., Codd. ANRZ,
Ephraemi, Claromont., Rossanensis, and Cureton’s Homer). In the
seventh century the diameter began to pass out of the circle on
both sides: thence the circle came to be compressed into an
ellipse (sometimes very narrow), and the ends of the minor axis to
be ornamented with knobs, as in Cod. B of the Apocalypse (eighth
century), Cod. Augiensis (ninth century), LX of the Gospels, after
the manner of the tenth century (Nos. 7, 16, 21, 36, 38).
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