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in 'uncial' type. Under this head are included not only passages or sentences expressly cited in the context as quotations, but sentences adopted from the Old Testament without any such indication, and also all phrases apparently borrowed from some one passage or limited number of passages, and in a few places characteristic single words. The line has been extremely difficult to draw, and may perhaps have wavered occasionally. Words or forms of speech occurring in either the Massoretic Hebrew alone or the Septuagint alone have been treated as belonging to the Old Testament, as well as those which stand in both texts; and the various readings belonging to different states of the LXX, as preserved in its extant MSS, have likewise been taken into account. On the other hand words occurring in the midst of quotations, and not clearly capable of being referred to an Old Testament original, have been left in ordinary type. A list of references to the passages, phrases, and words marked as taken from the Old Testament is given in the Appendix. Hebrew and Aramaic words transliterated in Greek, not being proper names, are marked by spaced type; inscribed titles and the peculiar formulæ quoted in Rom. x 9, 1 Cor. xii 3, and Phil. ii 11, are printed entirely in ordinary capitals.

414. The use of capital initials for the most part tells its own tale; but some explanation is required as to the exceptional employment of and. Wherever is preceded by an article, it is manifestly a pure appellative, and needs no capital. When the article is wanting, apart from such phrases as and, in a considerable number of cases the form is evidently taken from the LXX, where it usually represents Jehovah (Jahveh), Adonai, or some other name of God. Direct and in this respect exact quotations from the LXX, which evidently throw no light on the usage of the writer who quotes them, similar direct quotations in which is not the word employed in at least existing texts of the LXX, reminiscences of one or more passages in the LXX, and detached phrases of frequent occurrence in it (as ) make up the greater number of these cases. The only writers who in our judgement employ the anarthrous as a name after the manner of the LXX, but quite independently, are St James, St Peter, and (in the Apocalypse) St John; and even in reminiscences of the LXX, or short phrases taken from it, the distribution of this use