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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
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| D. 163—168. Posteriority of Syrian to Western, Alexandrian, and other (neutral) readings shown (3) by Internal Evidence of Syrian readings |
115—119 | |
| 163. | General inferiority of distinctive Syrian readings as tested by Internal Evidence; | 115 |
| 164. | seen most clearly where other texts differ among themselves, when the Syrian reading is often found to be a modification of a reading not itself original | 116 |
| 165. | Summary of the various modes of Syrian procedure in relation to the earlier texts | 116 |
| 166. | The Patristic and the Internal Evidence shew the Syrian text not only to have been formed from the other ancient texts, as the evidence of conflation proved, but to have been formed from them exclusively; so that distinctive Syrian readings must be rejected as corruptions | 117 |
| 167. | Similarly the Syrian element of attestation adds no appreciable authority to the Non-Syrian element of attestation for earlier readings adopted by the Syrian text (non-distinctive Syrian readings); | 118 |
| 168. | though sometimes the elements cannot be sufficiently distinguished owing to Non-Syrian mixture | 118 |
| Section II. Characteristics of the chief ancient texts (169—187) | 119—135 | |
| 169. | Concurrence of the Pre-Syrian texts having been accepted as decisive authority, the several differences of reading between them can be dealt with only by ascertaining the characteristics of each text | 119 |
| A. 170—176. Western characteristics | 120—126 | |
| 170. | Prevalence of obvious corruption in the Western text, chiefly owing to bold licence of treatment; | 120 |
| 171. | distinctive Western readings and non-distinctive Syrian readings originally Western bearing the same testimony | 121 |
| 172. | The Western text not single and created at once, but various and progressive | 122 |
| 173. | Its two chief characteristics boldness of paraphrase and readiness to adopt extraneous matter; | 122 |
| 174. | other tendencies found at work in other texts, but specially exuberant here, being (1) to incipient paraphrase, as shown in petty changes of form, | 123 |
| 175. | and (2) to assimilation, especially of parallel or similar passages (harmonistic corruption) | 124 |
| 176. | Similar licence found in the texts of other literature much read in early Christian times, and probably due in the N. T. to inconsiderate regard for immediate use and edification | 125 |
