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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
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PAR. | PAGES | |
B. 225, 226. Identification and rejection of Syrian readings | 163, 164 | |
225. | Documentary criteria for detecting Syrian readings | 163 |
226. | Causes and limitations of their occasional uncertainties | 164 |
C. 227—232. Identification of Western and of Alexandrian readings | 164—169 | |
227. | Assignation of Pre-Syrian readings to the several Pre-Syrian types a larger task | 164 |
228. | Documentary criteria of distinctively Western readings; | 165 |
229. | and of distinctively Alexandrian readings; | 166 |
230. | and also of Western readings which became Syrian, and of Alexandrian readings which became Syrian | 167 |
231. | The attestation of Non-Western and Non-Alexandrian readings essentially residual | 167 |
232. | Causes of occasional uncertainty of assignation | 168 |
D. 233—235. Identification of neutral readings | 169—172 | |
233. | In ternary variations Pre-Syrian readings by the side of Western and Alexandrian readings may be either modifications of the others or independent and neutral | 169 |
234. | The attestation of neutral readings ascertained partly by direct inspection of ternary readings, partly by comparison of the two chief types of binary readings | 170 |
235. | Details of neutral attestation | 170 |
E. 236—239. Suspiciousness of Western and of Alexandrian readings | 172—175 | |
236. | Western and Alexandrian texts, as wholes, aberrant in character | 172 |
237. | The possibility that individual Western or Alexandrian readings may be original not excluded by any known genealogical relations; | 173 |
238. | but internal character unfavourable to the claims of all but a few | 173 |
239. | The apparent originality of some Western readings due to derivation from traditional sources | 174 |
F. 240—242. Exceptional Western non-interpolations | 175—177 | |
240. | Certain apparently Western omissions in the Gospels shown by internal character to be original, i. e.. non-interpolations | 175 |
241. | The probable origin of the corresponding Non-Western interpolations | 176 |
242. | No analogous exceptional class of genuine Alexandrian readings | 177 |
G. 243. Recapitulation of genealogical evidence proper | 178, 179 | |
243. | Results of genealogical evidence proper summed up in five propositions | 178 |