| Show THE LAST VERSES TERSES OF MARK concerning a recently discovered mar manuscript I 1 asor apt containing a syriac version verion of the four gospels the now new york independent publishes the sub aab joined particulars the valuable abe document was found at mount sinai the text to la Cret Cr etonian onlan syriac we baft not yet informed whether it contain the t whole new testament or not but it do doea contain at leaah isaab the four gospels substantially b complete it is in a palimpsest manuscript on and the work of reading it I 1 is ia not easy the Cret Cr etonian onlan is in the earliest by abac version of the new testament going back it is believed into the second century and was replaced in common use by the Pes bito which is the ordinary syriac version and hitherto the most valuable of all the versions of the new testament only fragments of the Cr etonian syriac were known obtained from odd leaves of parchment found in the monastery scholars will be very much interested to know that this new manu manuscript scrip rip which we hope will be published before long does not contain the last eight verses of mark although the fragments do contain a part of them we can hardly say what may yet be expected within the last few years there have been discovered a commentary from which we recover much of the of tatian the teaching of the A apostles po sties the apology of aristides Arist idea portions of frag fragment mens Jerusa jerusalem leur syriac version of the new testament and the gospel and revelation of peter if we went back baca a little further we should have to add the Sin aitio manuscript the of no now w what we most want to find are th the e writings of caplas and the matthew we may add as another interesting te item that tha a very fine old copy of the samaritan pentateuch has lately been brought to this country by the rev william S watson of guttenburg N ja J and nd that it contains a colophon stating that it was written in A H by abraham ben israel ben ephraum ben joseph the prince king of israel this would be A D more than years earlier than the earliest dated samaritan manuscript in the british museum there is a tendency among biblical scholars cb ulars t consider not only the set jast eight verses of mark but the whole portion of the last chapter from verge terse 9 as a later addition the two awo most moat ancient greek mauu manu crippo exclude them and others ethers five an aln entirely different ending to the it is evident bw however ever that if these verses were not penned by the author whose name the book bears they were added so early that the exact tote date is 18 no more obtainable through the ithe ordinary resources of history they may have been added for aught we know by somebody personally acquainted with mark or with peter under bander whose supervision the gospel WAS wai probably written and they may contain cont 9 n the substance of what these men told the saints in the public so as the references to the of christ his appearance to his disciples the commission given to co the twelve to and the promises of miraculous mant gestations following faith are faida mental parts of and not one of them is rendered less leaa important by any douht doubt that ean can be cast upon the genuineness of this thia part of the new Testa testament all the probability so far is that the verses verges to in question tion are genuine and authentic but even if their genuineness should sometime acme time be prove I 1 doubtful their authenticity la Is beyond a doubt supported as they are re by sacred scriptures and by mod ern rn one |
