Scripture evangelice et apostolice interpolate sunt, de hac epistola penitus abstulit ; et non solum hoc sed et ab eo loco, ubi scriptum est : omne autem quod non est ex fide peccatum est : usque ad finem cuncta dissecuit. In aliis vero exemplaribus, id est, in his quae non sunt a Marcione temerata, hoc ipsum caput diverse positum invenimus ; in nonnullis etenim codicibus post eum locum quem supra diximus hoc est: ommne autem quod non est ex fide peccatum est: statim coherens habetur : ei autem qui potens est vos confirmare. Alii vero codices in fine id, ut nunc est positum, continent. This remark is made at xvi. 25, and caput hoc means, of course, this passage, 7.e., the doxology. Marcion wholly omitted it there. But what do the following words mean? What strikes one at first is that he not only omitted it there, but omitted everything standing after ‘‘ whatsoever is not of faith is sin”—in other words, not only the doxology, but the whole of chaps. xv. and xvi. But Dr. Hort (vide Appendix, p. 112), who reads (with what he says seems to be the best MS.) in εο loco instead of ab eo loco, and changes hoc into hic, only finds the statement that Marcion cut off the whole of the doxology at xiv. 23, as well as at xvi. 25. But usque ad finem cuncta dissecuit is a very misleading way to express this to readers whose copies of the epistle would all contain chaps. xv. and xvi., and it is hardly open to doubt that the first impression of the meaning is the correct one, and that Marcion ended his Epistle to the Romans at xiv. 23. Thus, as Gifford puts it, “we have evidence of a diversity of position before Origen’s time, and regarded by him as independent of Marcion’s mutilated copies. But we have no evidence of omission before Marcion, who was at Rome propagating his views about Α.Ὀ. 138-140.”
(b) There is the evidence of the “capitulations,” or division of the epistle into sections, in some MSS. of the Latin Bible, especially the two best codices of the Vulgate, Codex Amiatinus and Codex Fuldensis, both sixth century MSS. In Codex Amiatinus there are fifty-one sections. The fiftieth, entitled De periculo contristante fratrem suum esca sua, et quod non sit regnum Dei esca et potus sed justitia et pax et gaudium in Spiritu Sancto, evidently answers to chap. xiv. 15-23; the fifty-first, which is entitled De mysterio Domini ante passionem in silentio habito, post passionem vero ipsius revelate, as plainly corresponds to the doxology. The capitulations therefore were drawn up for a Latin MS. which omitted chaps. xv. and xvi. In another way the capitulations in Codex Fuldensis point to the same conclusion.
(c) There is the appearance, at least, of different endings. 1.
When the doxology stands at xiv. 23, it indicates ar ending at that VOL. Ἡ. 37 '