of evidence. Inthe dearth of better witnesses, their place is occa- sionally more serious than some editors would allow ; but no attempt at grouping them can be pronounced successful (about sixty contain the commentary of Andreas), and it is merely in the wake of earlier and heavier authorities that most of the minuscules can, asa rule, be employed with any safety.
In the main, however, there is a fair consensus of editors (cf. W.H .., ii., 260 f.) for the bulk of the text as printed in the following pages. Exigencies of space have obliged the present editor to omit nearly all the textual material which he had amassed, and the only variants noted, as a rule, are those of direct significance for the expositor. Once or twice a variant has some intrinsic interest of a special kind, or the reading has had to be justified, but the textual notes do not profess to provide anything like a complete textual conspectus. Thus there is no discussion upon the gloss of S on ἀνὰ in iv. 8, upon the curious Syriac rendering of viii. 13 (as if peo.= µέσος οὐρὰ αἶμα), or upon the interpolation at xi. 1. All that one has been able to do is to furnish the reader with as accurate a text as possible for that elucidation of the religious ideas of the book which it is the primary object of the Expositor’s Greek Testament to facilitate.
SpeciAL ABBREVIATIONS (cf. others in vol. ii. 754-756, iii. 33-36, 413).
And.=comm.! of Andreas, bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (fifth or sixth century), author of first Greek edit. (ἑρμηνεία eis τὴν ᾽Αποκάλυψιν). Cf. von Soden’s die Schriften des Ν.Τ., i. 1, 472-475, 702 f., and Delitzsch’s Hands. Funde, ii. (1862), pp. 29 f.
Areth.=comm. of Arethas, his successor (in 10th cent. ?), allied to Q (Delitzsch) as And. to A upon the whole.
Arm. =Armenian version. Cf. Conybeare’s Armenian Version of Rev. (London, 1907), from codex 4 (12th cent.).
Bs. = Bousset’s “ Textkritische Studien zum N.T.” (Texte u. Unter- suchungen, xi. 4, 1-44), 1894.
edd.=consensus or large majority of editors: so min. (minuscules), MSS. (manuscripts), and vss. (versions).
1 Extant in these forms; Anda=codex August., 12th cent. (14th, Gregory), Andc =codex Coisl. (roth cent.), Andbav=codex Bavaricus (16th cent.), Andpal=codex Palatinus (15th cent.). The newly discovered commentary of Oecumenius (6th cent., cf. Diekamp in Sitzungsberichte der konigl. preuss. Akad., 1907, 1046 f.), as yet un- edited, may take the primacy from Andreas.