The Armenian manuscripts display variations of several sorts. In some John’s Gospel precedes the Synoptists, in others it is followed by the Apocryphal “Rest of St. John.” The Apocalypse was not read in church prior to the twelfth century. In the oldest manuscript of the entire New Testament, at Venice, which dates from the year 1220, the order of the other books is Acts, Catholic Epistles, Apocalypse, Pauline Epistles, with the Epistle of the Corinthians to Paul. In Moscow there is a manuscript of the year 887, in Venice one dated 902, in Etschmiadzin one written in the year 986 and bound in ivory covers of the third or fourth century. In the last-mentioned Codex the words, “of Ariston the Presbyter,” are found after Mark xvi. 8, as the heading of what follows. (_See Plate IX._) We learn from this, what is evidently correct, viz., that the present conclusion of Mark’s Gospel is due to a certain Ariston, who may perhaps be identified with Aristion, the teacher of Papias in the second century. The earlier Armenian version also contained the two verses Luke xxii. 43, 44, which were omitted in the later. LITERATURE.—_TiGr._, 912-922. Scrivener, ii. 148-154. F. C. Conybeare, _Armenian Versions of N. T._, in Hastings’ _Bible Dictionary_, i. 153 f. See also J. A. Robinson, _Euthaliana_, c. v.; _The Armenian Version and its supposed relation to Euthalius_, in _Texts and Studies_, vol. iii. (1895). On Aristion see _Expositor_, 1894, p. 241, and below, p. 295. (_g._) THE GEORGIAN VERSION. This version, called also the Grusinian or Iberian, is thought to have been made from the Greek in the sixth century, though it may also be derived from the Armenian. It contains the pericope adulteræ (John vii. 53-viii. 11), but places it immediately after ch. vii. 44, which is the more remarkable, seeing that in the Old Latin Codex b, the passage from vii. 44 onwards has been erased. The Georgian version was first printed at Moscow in 1743. Scrivener, ii. 156-158; re-written by F. C. Conybeare. _TiGr._, 922 f. (_h._) THE ARABIC VERSIONS.