Rev. Vincent Henry Stanton, M.A.. D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, and Ely Professor of Divinity in the Lniversitj- of Cambridge.
John F. Stenning, M.A., Lecturer in Hebrew and Theology, Wadham College, Oxford.
Rev. Alexander Stewart, 51. A., D.D., Prin- cipal and Primarius Professor of Divinity, St. Mary's College, University of St. Andrews.
Kev. James Straciian, M.A., St. Fergus.
Rev. Tho.mas B. Strong, M.A., Student of Christ Church, Oxford.
Rev. Isaac T.vylor, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., Rector
of Settrington and Canon of York. Rev. John Tay'lor, M.A., Litt.D., Vicar of
Winchcombe. Henry St. John Thackeray, M.A., Examiner in
the Education Department, formerly Divinity
Lecturer in Selwyn College, Craiibridge. Rev. G. W. Thatcher, M.A., B.D., Hebrew
Tutor and Lecturer on Old Testament History
and Literature in Mansfield College, Oxford. Rev. Joseph Henry Thayer, M.A., D.D., Litt.D.,
Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism
and Interpretation in the Divinity School of
Harvard University. Ccthbert Hamilton Turner, M.A., Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford. Rev. George Walker, 31. A., B.D., Callander. Rev. Benj.\min Breckinridge Warfield, D.D.,
LL.D., Professor of Systematic Theology in
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. Lieut. General Sir Charles "Warren, G.C.M.G.,
K.C.B., F.R.S., Royal Engineers. Rev. Adam C. Welch, M.A., B.D., Helensburgh. Rev. Henry Alcock White, M.A., Tutor in the
University of Durham ; late Fellow of New
College, Oxford. Rev. Newport J. D. White, JI.A., B.D.. Assist- ant Lecturer in Divinity and Hebrew in the
University of Dublin. Rev. Owen C. Wiiitehouse, M.A., Principal and
Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Theology,
Cheshunt College, Herts. Major-General Sir Charles William Wilson,
R.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.C.L, LL.D.,
F.R.S. Rev. Francis Henky Woods. M.A., B.D., Vicar
of Chalfout St. Peter, Bucks, and late Fellow
and Theological Lecturer of St. John's College,
Oxford. Rev. John AVortabet, M.A, M.D., Beyrout,
Synu
dictio:n'ary of the bible
A. — This letter is used in critical notes on the text of OT and NT to denote the Codex Alexarulrinus, a MS of the Greek Bible written apparently in Ej.'ypt c. A.D. 450, placed in the lilirary of the Patriarch of Alexandria in 1098, presented by Cyril Liicar, I'atriarch of Con- stantinople (formerly of Alexandria), to Charles I. in lti28, and now in the British Museum. It con- tains the whole Bible except Gn 14"" IS'-"-'"'" le"-", 1 K [1 S] 12'8-14», Ps 4n(5o)'*-79(80)", Mt l'-25«, Jn 6"-8", 2 Co 4'»-12'. The Psalter is intro- tinccd by a letter of Athanasius to Marcellinus, the Ilyjiotheses of Eusebius, and various tables; and is concluded by a collection of Canticles from OT and NT, and a Christian Momin}; Hymn. Kev is followed by two Epi.stles of Clement (want- in|» l""'" S'^"""), both apparently still in ecclesiastical use at the time when this MS. was written. Last of all, marked as extra-canonical, came eighteen Psalms of Solomon ; but this part has disappeared. Its rcJidings in OT can be most readily ascer- tained from Professor Swete's edition of the LXX. Its NT text was published by Woide in 1780, by
B. H. Cowper in 180O, and by E. H. Hansell in a parallel text, 18(54. The whole MS was published in a photot,Tajiliic facsimile by the Curators of the British Museum in 1879. J. O. F. Mukkay.
X (Alejdi), the 6rBt letter in the Heb. alphabet. This symbol in crit. app. denotes the Codex Sinaiticus, a MS of the Greek Bible discovered in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai by
C. Tischeudorf, 1844 and 1859. It was written towards the midille or end of the 4th cent. Four scribes at least were employed on it. The scrilie who copied Tobit and Juditli wrote also six cancel leaves in the NT containing Mt IG'-IS" 24-'«-2G", Mk 14"-I,k 1», 1 Th 2"-528, He 4"-8', besides various headlines, titles, subscriptions, and section numbers. This scribe Tischendorf further identified with the scribe who wrote the NT in Codex li, Vatieaiius (which see). The MS shows marks of revision due to various hands from the 4th cent, to the 12th cent. One of these, n°*, 7th cent., declares in a note at the end of 2 Ks [Ezr- Neh] and at the end of Est, thai he had compared the MS in these liooks with a very ambient copy transcribed by Antoninus the Confessor, and col- lated with Orinen's lli.'xapla by tlie holy martyr Pamphilus when in prison at Ca?sarea. The cor- rections introduced by him in these books, tliou^h
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of an Origenic character, certainly do not embody the complete Hexaplaric text.
There seems to be no clear evidence to show either where the MS was written, or how it passed into the possession of the monks of St. Catherine. While in their possession it fell into decay, and long ago the outside sheets were cut up for book- binding purposes ; and Tischendorf was convinced that the sheets he rescued in 1844 were only wait- ing their turn for use in the oven. It is not sur- prising, therefore, that the MS is now far from complete. It contains portions of Gn 23. 24 and ol Nu 5. 6. 7 ; 1 Ch 9'"-19", 2 Es 9»-'~' [Ezr 9»-Neh], Est, To, Jth, 1 Mac, 4 RIac (3 Mac perhaps lost), Is, Jer, La 1-2* Jl, Ob, Jon, Nali, Hab, Zeph. Hag, Zee, Mai, Ps, Pr, Ec, Ca, Wis, Sir, Job The NT is conii>lete, and is followed by the Epistle of Barnabas and i)art of the Shepherd of Hennas.