The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical ...

359 Pages·2011·3.7 MB·English

by  John William Burgon

The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According
to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Ob-
jectors and Established
Author(s): Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Subjects: The Bible
New Testament
Special parts of the New Testament
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Contents
Supplemental Information 1
Title Page 3
Prefatory Material 5
Greek Quotation. 5
Dedication. 6
Preface. 8
Contents 10
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark. 17
Chapter I. The Case of the Last Twelve Verses of S. Mark’s Gospel, Stated. 18
Chapter II. The Hostile Verdict of Biblical Critics Shewn to Be Quite of Recent 21
Date.
Chapter III. The Early Fathers Appealed to, and Observed to Bear Favourable 32
Witness.
Chapter IV. The Early Versions Examined, and Found to Yield Unfaltering 42
Testimony to the Genuineness of These Verses.
Chapter V. The Alleged Hostile Witness of Certain of the Early Fathers Proved 47
to Be an Imagination of the Critics.
Chapter VI. Manuscript Testimony Shewn to Be Overwhelmingly in Favour of 71
These Verses.—Part I.
Chapter VII. Manuscript Testimony Shewn to Be Overwhelmingly in Favour of 89
These Verses.—Part II.
Chapter VIII. The Purport of Ancient Scholia, and NOtes in MSS. on the Subject 107
of These Verses, Shewn to Be the Reverse of Waht Is Commonly Supposed.
Chapter IX. Internal Evidence Demonstrated to Be the Very Reverse of 126
Unfavourable to These Verses.
Chapter X. The Testimony of the Lectionaries Shewn to be Absolutely Decisive 170
as to the Genuineness of These Verses.
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Chapter XI. The Omission of These Twelve Verses in Certain Ancient Copies of 187
the Gospels, Explained and Accounted for.
Chapter XII. General Review of the Question: Summary of the Evidence; and 212
Conclusion of the Whole Subject.
Appendix 222
Contents 223
Appendix (A). On the importance of attending to Patristic Citations of Scripture. 224
The Correct Text of S. Luke ii. 14, established.
Appendix (B). Eusebius “ad Marinum” concerning the reconcilement of S. Mark 231
xvi. 9 with S. Matthew xxviii. 1.
Appendix (c). Proof that Hesychius is a copyist only in what he says concerning 233
the end of S. Mark’s Gospel.
Appendix (D). Some account of VICTOR OF ANTIOCH'S Commentary on S. 236
Mark’s Gospel; together with an enumeration of MSS. which contain Victor's
Work.
Appendix (E). Text of the concluding Scholion of Victor of Antioch's Commentary 253
on S. Mark's Gospel; in which Victor bears emphatic testimony to the genuineness
of “the last Twelve Verses.”
Appendix (F). On the Relative antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus (B), and the 256
Codex Sinaiticus ((cid:0)).
Appendix (G). On the so-called “Ammonian Sections” and “Eusebian Canons”. 260
Appendix (H). On the INterpolation of the text of Codex B and Codex (cid:0)of S. 275
Matthew xxvii. 48 or 49.
Postscript. 280
L’Envoy 285
General Index 287
Indexes 306
Index of Scripture References 307
Greek Words and Phrases 311
Hebrew Words and Phrases 346
Latin Words and Phrases 347
Index of Pages of the Print Edition 354
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Supplemental Information
Supplemental Information
THE LAST TWELVE VERSES
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OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
S. MARK
ON the next page is exhibited an exact Fac-simile, obtained by Photography, of fol. 28
b of the Codex Sinaiticusat S. Petersburg, (Tischendorf’s א): shewing the abrupt termination ii
of S. Mark’s Gospel at the words ΕΦΟΒΟΥΝΤΟ ΓΑΡ(chap. xvi. 8), as explained at p. 70, and
pp. 86-8. The original Photograph, which is here reproduced on a diminished scale, measures
in height full fourteen inches and one-eighth; in breadth, full thirteen inches. It was procured
for me through the friendly and zealous offices of the English Chaplain at S. Petersburg, the
Rev. A. S. Thompson, B.D.; by favour of the Keeper of the Imperial Library, who has my
hearty thanks for his liberality and consideration.
It will be perceived that the text begins at S. Mark xvi. 2, and ends with the first words
of S. Luke i. 18.
Up to this hour, every endeavour to obtain a Photograph of the corresponding page of
the Codex Vaticanus, B, (Nº. 1209, in the Vatican,) has proved unavailing. If the present
Vindication of the genuineness of Twelve Verses of the everlasting Gospel should have the
good fortune to approve itself to his Holiness, Pope Pius IX., let me be permitted in this
unadorned and unusual manner,—(to which I would fain add some circumstance of respect-
ful ceremony if I knew how,)—very humbly to entreat his Holiness to allow me to possess
a Photograph, corresponding in size with the original, of the page of CodexB (it is numbered
fol. 1303,) which exhibits the abrupt termination of the Gospel according to S. Mark.
J. W. B.
Oriel College, Oxford,
June14, 1871.
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Title Page
Title Page
THE
LAST TWELVE VERSES
OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO
S. MARK
VINDICATED AGAINST RECENT CRITICAL OBJECTORS
AND ESTABLISHED
BY
JOHN W. BURGON B.D.
VICAR OF S. MARY-THE-VIRGIN’S, FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE,
AND GRESHAM LECTURER IN DIVINITY.
WITH FACSIMILES OF CODEX א AND CODEX L.
“‘Advice to you,’ sir, ‘in studying Divinity?’ Did you say that you ‘wished I would
give you a few words of advice,’ sir? . . . Then let me recommend to you the practice
of always verifying your references, sir!”
Conversation of the late President Routh.
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Oxford and London:
JAMES PARKER AND CO.
1871.
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Prefatory Material
PGrreefeakto Qryu Motaatteiorina.l
ἀμὴν γὰρ λέγω ὑμῖν,
ἕως ἂν παρέλθῃ ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ,
ἰῶτα ἓν ἢ μὶα κεραία οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου,
ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται.
εὐκοπώτερον δέ ἐστι
τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν παρελθεῖν,
ἢ τοῦ νόμου μίαν κεραίαν πεσεῖν.
ὁ οὐρανὸς καὶ ἡ γῆ παρελεύσονται,
οἰ δὲ λόγοι μου οὐ μὴ παρέλθωσι.
καὶ ἐάν τις ἀφαιρῇ
ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων βίβλου τῆς προφητείας ταύτης,
ἀφαιρήσει ὁ Θεὸς τὸ μέρος αὐτοῦ
ἀπὸ βίβλου τῆς ξωῆς,
καὶ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως τῆς ἁγίας,
καὶ τῶν γεγραμμένων ἐν βιβλίῳ τούτῳ.
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