The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. MarkBurgon, John William
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The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
Burgon, John William
Bible. Mark XVI, 9-20 -- Criticism, Textual
“If therefore, on opening any one soever of the four Gospels, thou
desirest to study any given Section, and to ascertain which of the
Evangelists have said things of the same kind; as well as to discover the
particular place where each has been led [to speak] of the same
things;—note the number of the Section thou art studying, and seek that
number in the Canon indicated by the numeral subscribed in vermilion. Thou
wilt be made aware, at once, from the heading of each Canon, how many of
the Evangelists, and which of them, have said things of the same kind.
Then, by attending to the parallel numbers relating to the other Gospels
in the same Canon, and by turning to each in its proper place, thou wilt
discover the Evangelists saying things of the same kind.”
APPENDIX (H).
On the Interpolation of the text of CODEX B and CODEX א at S.
MATTHEW xxvii. 48 or 49.
(Referred to at pp. 202 and 219.)
It is well known that our two oldest Codices, Cod. B and Cod. א, (see
above, p. 80,) exhibit S. Matthew xxvii. 49, as follows. After σωσων
[_Cod. Sinait._ σωσαι] αυτον, they read:—
(COD. B.)
αλλος δε λαβω
λογχην ενυξεν αυτου
την πνευραν και εξηλ
θεν υδωρ και αιμα
(COD. א.)
αλλος
δε λαβων λογχη
ενυξεν αυτου ΤΗ
πνευραν και εξηλ
θεν υδωρ και αι
μα
Then comes, ο δε ΙΣ παλιν κραξας κ.τ.λ. The same is also the reading of
Codd. C, L, U, Γ: and it is known to recur in the following cursives,—5,
48, 67, 115, 127.(572)
Obvious is it to suspect with Matthaei, (ed. 1803, vol. i. p. 158,) that
it was the Lectionary practice of the Oriental Church which occasioned
this interpolation. In S. John xix. 34 occurs the well-known record,—ἀλλ᾽
εἶς τῶν στρατιωτῶν λόγχῃ αὐτοῦ τὴν πλευρὰν ἔνυξε, καὶ εὐθὺς ἐξῆλθεν αἷμα
καὶ ὕδωρ: and it was the established practice of the Easterns, in the
Ecclesiastical lection for Good Friday, (viz. S. Matth. xxvii. 1-61,) _to
interpose S. John_ xix. 31 _to_ 37 between the 54th and the 55th verses of
S. Matthew. This will be found alluded to above, at p. 202 and again at
pp. 218-9.
After the pages just quoted were in type, while examining Harl. MS. 5647
in the British Museum, (_our_ Evan. 72,) I alighted on the following
Scholion, which I have since found that Wetstein duly published; but which
has certainly not attracted the attention it deserves, and which is
incorrectly represented as referring to the end of S. Matth. xxvii. 49. It
is _against ver._ 48 that there is written in the margin,—
(Η(573) Ὅτι εἰς τὸ καθ᾽ ἱστορίαν εὐαγγέλιον Διαδώρου καὶ Τατιανοῦ καὶ
ἄλλων διαφόρων ἁγίων πατέρων: τοῦτο πρόσκειται:
(Η Ἄλλος δὲ λαβών: λόγχην ἔνυξεν αὐτοῦ τὴν πνευρὰν. καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ὕδωρ καὶ
αἷμα: τοῦτο λέγει καὶ ὁ Χρυσόστομος.
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