Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New TestamentNestle, Eberhard
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Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament
Nestle, Eberhard
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Textual
It is quite uncertain when our four Gospels were first written together
in one volume and arranged in the order that is now common. The
Muratorian Fragment on the Canon[130] is defective at the beginning, but
seems to imply this arrangement. It was supposed that the Gospels were
written in the following order—viz. Matthew first and John last. The
order, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, which is found in nearly all the Greek
and Syriac manuscripts, was made popular by Eusebius and Jerome. The
former followed it in his _Canons_, which were afterwards adopted by
Jerome in his Latin Bible. According to Eusebius (_Eccl. Hist._, vi.
25),[131] Origen knew this order, though he very frequently cites the
Gospels in the order Matthew, Luke, Mark.
The following arrangements are also found:—
[Transcriber’s Note: The following list begins with (2).]
(2) Matthew, Mark, John, Luke, in the earlier (Curetonian) Syriac and in
the Canon Mommsenianus, a catalogue of the Books of the Bible and of the
works of Cyprian, originating in Latin Africa about the year 360, and
first published by Mommsen.[132]
(3) Matthew, Luke, Mark, John, in the so-called Ambrosiaster and in a
Catalogue of the Sixty Canonical Books.
(4) Matthew, John, Mark, Luke—_i.e._ the two Apostles put before the two
pupils of Apostles, in the Codex Claromontanus.[133] This order occurs
also in the Arabic writer Masudi’s _Meadows of Gold_.[134]
(5) Matthew, John, Luke, Mark, in Codd. D and X, in the _Apostolic
Constitutions_, in Ulfilas, and especially in the Old Latin Manuscripts;
see Corssen, _Monarchianische Prologe_, p. 65, in _TU._ xv. 1.[135]
(6) John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, in Codex k.
(7) John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, in the Vocabularies of the Egyptian
versions.
(8) John, Matthew, Luke, Mark, in Tertullian and cod. 19. See Arthur
Wright, _Some New Testament Problems_, p. 196 ff.[136]
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