G. MiLLIOAN.
* See Kenyon. Our Bible and the Ancient itantucripU, p. 239 ; and compare Bishop Westcott's weighty words, ' What- ever may be the merits of the revised version, it can be said confidently that in no parallel f.-we have the readings of the original text to be translated been discussed and determined witli equal care, thoroughness and candour' (/iwIoryS, p. vill, note).
t See 'The Doctrinal Significance of the RV, three articles in The Expository Timet, viL 877, 462, vUL 171.
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VERSIONS (Georgian, Ootiiic, Slavomc).- ^ The Georgian Version. - This versvon is 1 1 to the 5Ui or 6th cent., and, according to
" in the mo. vstery on Mount Sinai. The next
important -^1^, °* r\,.„t ' In this the Minor a.'^signed to the 11th cent ^^^^
names of many ot the tc"ue3 ^ i
two of other parts of the IN 1. ,
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particular ,-oints.' Both in the OT and in the NT the Version was made from tlie Greek.
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i^nt in Scrivener's Introduclum, ii. 166.
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according to hi^. P"-r^',;'a."J' (e a Ca2' vhere this purpose. AV e ^■-^'^^^f ^««^, ^aCa mistaken
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Moscow edition ''"l'--" f-^O'" ^'ufootl.cr Visions Song of Songs In >"«„«f '^'j^", °nd additions, there seem to have heen ^«^ *''<'"*/^,,„ ji„erent Thus T^i^-^r^'' (';(; ffJiW'.llt the various read- translators, and a^"» v - i nT we ace there were ings of the Georgian N 1 ^"^0^^^;,: .^n^'^li^^l' Mr.
was made of their .ver^'O";. , ,,^,\ ^^^^ ^"^hes that Convbeare* from his own ^""'^tions tesuii. _
• Scrivener'* IiUroduclwii, 11. p. 167.
R The Gothic Version. -L Okioin of the V^; J,v - The beginnings of this Version are Za wi h the nam? of Ulfilas, and our kt^o°:t 4 ^hini comes mainly from Ph.lostor- ^r who was a contemporary and a "^t Y^ °! ur'district of Cappiulocia, from which Ull las narentf had been carried away near t^e end o(
StrpaS, Jrobably'some time beU'een AD VlO and A.D. 313; thirty years later, in 340 or 34I he was consecrated bishop «>tlier at Con- =t,ntino,ile or as Kaullmann a.sserts, at Antioth. itter remain[A"^n Dacia as bishop for some seven
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omitied^becaiise "-y/Jf /."thtc TiXs we? ■""'1:;r,v^f^d'':f wa'- ^'ThisltatenVenrU en- ^iii:d ti f'iiis" consideration as tl-t of a cor. l::^iporary.^n^ we^mu^ in^^^^that at^y
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• Thewcnl 'heathen.- «<ll^«ed»» Murm.v;- K;;i'^«J^J^|- Armenian.
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who says that ' certain differences in language and manner of translation make it doubtful even whether the fragments of tlie OT can be traced to the same origin as those of the New.'*
ii. The Manuscripts. —The history of the Version breaks off abruptly, for we know nothing more of it than can be gathered frnra the scanty remains which have come down to us in the MSS — remains which, scanty as they are, are of the greatest possible interest and value to the phUo- logist, because they are ' by several centuries the oldest specimen of Teutonic speech.' How far they underwent any changes during the century and a half, or rather more, whicli intervened between the date of Ullilas and that to which tliey are assigned, we cannot say. They all belong to the period of the East Gothic kingdom in Italy which began with Theodoric (493-526), and are all assigned to N. Italy.
The following t is a list of the MSS of the Bible in this Version : —
1. Codex ArgevXeua, — Thi3 MS is the most important. It is
assigned to the 6th or earlj' 6th cent., and is now at Upsala in Sweden. It is written in uncial, the letters beinfj of gold or silver, on purple vellum. The MS now contains, on 187 leaves, large fragments of Matthew, John, Luke, Mark in that (the Western) order, beginning with Mt 615.
2. Codex Carolinug. — This and the following fragments are all
palimpsest. It is bilingual (Goth. Lat.), and is now at Wolfenbiittel. The upper writing consists of works of Isidore of Seville. The MS is that usually referred to as P. Q. of the Gospels, and gtu of the Old Latin (Epistles), It was discovered by Knittel, and edited by him m 1762. It contains on four leaves about 42 verses from Ro 11-15. It has been regarded (so Bernhardt) as corrected from the Latin in some places, e.g. 12- 3, and in places agrees very closely with the first fragment at Milan, even in ortho- graphical peculiarities. 8. Codices Ambrosiani.— The following are now in the Am- brosian Library at Milan. These fragments, all in MSS which came from Bobhio, and originally belonged to two Gothic MSS, were discovered by Mai in 1817. Other frag- ments of the same MSS have been discovered at Turin and in the Vatican. Mai ascribes the writing in part to the early 5th, in part to the 6th, century : —