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sivc interpolations, e. g., a paragraph after Luke vi. 4 (which is found nowhere else): "On the same day be [Jesus] beheld a certain man working on the Sabbath, and said unto him, Man, blessed art thou if thou know- est what thou doest ; but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed and a transgressor of the law." It differs more than any other from the received Greek text, but it often agrees in remarkable readings with the ancient Latin and Syriac versions. Alford (i. 110) thinks that it was writ- ten in France by a Latin transcriber ignorant of Greek. Ban procured it from the monastery of St. Irena-us at Lyons in 1562, but did not use it on account of its many departures from other MSS. Tregelles remarks that "its evidence when alone, especially in additions, is of scarcely any value as to the genuine text; but of the very greatest when corroborated by other very ancient authority."

(2.) Uncials of the second class, defective and of later date.

D, for the Pajuline Epistles. Codex CLAROMOXTANUS ; of the sixth century ; defective, but very valuable ; in the National Library at Paris. Edited by Tischcndorf, Leipsic, 1852. Beza procured it from Clermont, and made some use of it (1582). It is Greek and Latin, stichometric, with accents by a later hand, but no division of words.

E, for the Gospels. Codex BASILIENSIS; eighth cen- tury; in the library at Basle ; defective in Luke. Erasmus overlooked it. Collated by Tischendorf (1843), Miiller, and Tregelles (1846). It is better than most of the second- class uncials. It approaches to the Textus Receptus.

E, for the Acts. Codex LAUDIANUB ; in Oxford; with a close Latin version on the left column ; of the sixth cen- tury ; probably brought from Tarsus to England by Theo- dore of Canterbury (d. 690), and used by the Venerable

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