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136.	Transcriptional Probability marks out δ as a combination of α and β;	96
137.	and, less clearly, α as the parent of β:	97
138.	Intrinsic Probability condemns β, and on examination commends α as far preferable to δ:	98
139.	hence the provisional conclusion that the common original of the documents attesting δ was later than either that of the documents which attest α or that of those which attest β	99
140.	Similar results in Mark viii 26	99
141.	Similar results in„ Mark„ ix 38	100
142.	Similar results in„ Mark„ ix 49	101
143.	Similar results in„ Luke ix 10	102
144.	Similar results in„ Luke„ xi 5	102
145.	Similar results in„ Luke„ xii 18	103
146.	Similar results in„ Luke„ xxiv 53	104
147.	Table of distribution of the chief MSS and versions in α, β, or δ in these eight variations	104
148.	Concordant testimony of these variations to the conflate character of the δ readings, and the originality of the α readings	104
149.	What documents habitually attest the α, β, and δ readings respectively	105
150.	No exceptions being observed elsewhere, the original scribes of δ must have in some manner used α documents and β documents in these conflate readings;	106
151.	and so may be inferred to have used them elsewhere	106
C. 152—162. Posteriority of 'Syrian' to 'Western' and other (neutral and 'Alexandrian') readings shown (2) by Ante-Nicene Patristic Evidence		107—115
152.	The next step to observe the attestations of 'distinctive ' readings of the several groups: special value of patristic evidence here as chronological	107
153.	Designation of group β as 'Western', with explanation of the term; of group δ as 'Syrian'; and of another group (γ) as 'Alexandrian'	108
154.	How far the several groups can be traced in the Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypse:	109
155.	their relations analogous throughout, so far as extant evidence allows them to be traced	110
156.	Preliminary cautions as to uncertainties of patristic quotations; (1) as liable to incorrect transmission;	110
157.	(2) as originally lax, and so liable to misinterpretation	111
158.	Most of the pertinent patristic evidence confined to the 75 years ending about A.D. 250, though with partial exceptions on each side	112
159.	In the period ending A.D. 250 Western readings abundant and widely spread;	113
160.	and also Alexandrian and other Non-Western readings: but no Syrian readings found	113
161.	Origen's testimony specially significant on account of his peculiar opportunities	114
162.	Importance of this external and independent evidence of the relative lateness of Syrian readings	114