Ναζαρέτ Ναζαρέθ Γεθσημανὴ Γεθσημανεί Ματθαῖος Μαθθαῖος Ἰωάννης Ιωάνης Δαβίὸ Δαυείὸ ᾿Ιεριχώ ᾿Ιερειχώ Ηλίας Ηλείας Μωσῆς Μωυσῆς Καπερναού, Καφαρναούμ Πιλάτος Πειλᾶτος
Among other insignificant variations may be mentioned the presence or absence of ν final in verbs (ἔλεγε, ἔλεγεν); the omission or in- sertion of µ (λήψομαι, λήµψομαι); the assimilation or non-assimilation of ἐν and σὺν in compound verbs (συζητεῖν, συνζητεῖν; ἐκκακεῖν, ἐνκα- kev) ; the doubling of p, ν, p or the reverse (μαμμωνᾶς, μαμωνᾶς; γέννημα, γένηµα : ἐπιρράπτει, ἐπιράπτει); the conjunction or disjunction of syllables (οὐκ ἔτι, οὐκέτι); οὕτως for οὕτω; the aorist forms εἶπον, ἦλθον, etc., replaced by forms in a (εἶπαν, ἦλθαν); single or double augment in certain verbs (ἐδυνάμην, ἠδυνάμην ; ἔμελλον, ἤμελλον).
1. Up till 1831 editors of the New Testament in Greek had been content to follow in the wake of the Textus Receptus, timidly adding _hotes indicating good readings which they had discovered in the documents accessible to them in their time. Lachmann in that year inaugurated a new critical era by printing a text constructed directly from ancient documents without the intervention of any printed edition. It is not given to pioneers to finish the work they begin, and Lachmann’s effort judged by present-day tests was far from perfect. “This great advance was marred by too narrow a selection of documents to be taken into account, and too artificially rigid an employment of them, and also by too little care in obtaining precise knowledge of some of their texts” (Westcott and Hort’s New Testament, Introduction, p. 13). Tischendorf in Germany and Tregelles in England worthily followed αρ Lachmann’s efforts, and made important contributions towards the ascertainment of the true text by adopting as their main guides the most ancient MSS., in place of the later documents which had formed the basis of the early printed editions. The critical editions of the Greek New Testament by these scholars appeared about the same time; Tischendorf's eighth edition (the important one which supersedes the earlier) bearing the date 1869, and the work of Tregelles being published in 1870. The characteristic feature of Tischendorf's edition is the predominant importance attached to the great Codex Sinaiticus (88). with the discovery of which his name is connected.