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CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION
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| PAR. | PAGES | |
| 349. | supported as regards Β and א by their exhibition of a Latin system of divisions in Acts, though not due to the first hands | 266 |
| 350. | Other indications from divisions of books altogether uncertain | 266 |
| 351. | Surmise that Β and א were both written in the West, probably at Rome, but that the ancestry of א contained an element transmitted from Alexandria: the inclusion of Hebrews about the middle of Cent. iv compatible with this supposition | 267 |
| 352. | Similarity of text throughout Β and (except in the Apocalypse) throughout א probably due to sameness of average external conditions, the greater uncials being probably copied from MSS which included only portions of the N. Τ. | 267 |
| 353. | Various forms and conditions of corrections by the different 'hands' of MSS | 269 |
| 354. | Changes of reading by the second hand (the 'corrector') of Β: worthless character of the changes by the third hand | 270 |
| 355. | The three chief sets of corrections of א. Erasures | 270 |
CHAPTER IV. SUBSTANTIAL INTEGRITY OF THE PUREST TRANSMITTED TEXT (356–374) |
271–287 | |
| 356. | The ultimate question as to the substantial identity of the purest transmitted text with the text of the autographs to be approached by enquiring first how far the text of the best Greek uncials is substantially identical with the purest transmitted text | 271 |
| A. 357—360. Approximate non-existence of genuine readings unattested by any of the best Greek uncials | 272—276 | |
| 357. | The preservation of scattered genuine readings by mixture with lost lines of transmission starting from a point earlier than the divergence of the ancestries of Β and א is theoretically possible: | 272 |
| 358. | but is rendered improbable, (a) as regards the readings of secondary uncials, by the paucity and sameness of their elements of mixture, and by the internal character of readings | 273 |
| 359. | There is a similar theoretical possibility as regards (b) reading's wholly or chiefly confined to Versions and Fathers, which exist in great numbers, and a priori deserve full consideration: | 274 |
| 360. | but they are condemned by Internal Evidence of Readings, with a few doubtful exceptions | 274 |
| B. 361—370. Approximate sufficiency of existing documents for the recovery of the genuine text, notwithstanding the existence of some primitive corruptions | 276—284 | |
| 361. | The question as to the possibility of primitive error not foreclosed by any assumption that no true words of Scripture can have perished, nor by the improbability of most existing conjectures | 276 |
