or N.T.,” with the forty or fifty added to this list by including Philo Judzeus, twenty-five occur in this Epistle; but apart from Hebrew loan-words (such as πάσχα), and excluding near relations and correlates of recognised classical or post-classical words, there remains, after the researches of Deissmann (in his Bzbelstudien and Neue Bibelstudien) and other students of the Greek inscriptions and papyri, only a handful, perhaps half a dozen of the twenty-five, that can be called properly and exclusively ‘“ Biblical”’—a scanty residue which further discovery may diminish. So far as 1 Corin- thians is concerned, we may dismiss, with Deissmann, ‘the legend of a Biblical Greek”. What is said of the Greek character of the vocabulary holds good in general of the grammar of this Epistle. The idioms of Paul’s epistolary style form a distinct subject, on which it is not necessary to enter here.
2. Text. The Greek Text of this Epistle stands on the same footing as that of the rest—all usually contained in the collected volume entitled Ο ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ. Eighteen of the twenty-three known Pauline uncial Codices belong to 1 Cor.: %B,AD,E,L, are com- plete; CF,G,K,P,, approximately complete; 9ο contains half, and 3H;1,M,Q,F? fragments of the Epistle. ΝΒΑΟ were Codices of the whole New Testament; 3KLPS included the Acts and Catholic Epp., P the Apocalypse also. In point of date, ΒΝ belong to the fourth century; RACIQ to the fifth century; DH to the sixth century ; F to the seventh century; the rest to the ninth century. Amongst the numerous correctors of δν, δε, of the seventh century, is important here as elsewhere. 3 (a palimpsest in the Vatican Library) and S, (Athous Laure) are not yet critically edited or collated: see on these MSS., and for full details respecting the textual material, C. R. Gregory’s Prolegomena to Tischendorf’s N.T. Grace, ed. major. Out of the 480 catalogued minuscule (or cursive) MSS. of Paul few deserve attention. ‘‘ The ancient elements” found in them ‘appear with extreme irregularity in different places of the Epistles,’ and Western readings in a re- markably small proportion (Westcott and Hort, Introd. to the N.T. in Greek, § 212). The most notable, and those oftenest cited below, are 17 (same as 33 of Gospels and 18 of Acts), 37 (Gospels 69, Acts. 31, Rev. 14), 47 (Gospels 49)—all extending to viii. 10; and 67 * * (Acts 66, Rev. 34)—the marginal corrections of an ordinary cursive, which ‘include a relatively large number of very ancient readings,” akin to those of M,(W.H.); 71; 109 (Acts 96). The 265 numbered Lectionaries containing Acts and Epistles are but partially explored ; none as yet appear of sufficient value to be regularly cited.