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The Translation of Oϒn in the Old Latin Gospels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

D. C. Parker
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This study became necessary in the course of my work on Codex Bezae. I wished to ascertain the degree of consistency with which the version used one Latin word to translate one Greek one, in order to find differences between the Mss, to assess their usefulness in supporting Greek readings, and to place the relation between the two columns of Codex Bezae in a new light. The advantages in choosing οὖν were, first its frequency, second its insignificance, with the implication that a reviser would pay little or no attention to it. The disadvantage is that it is not used uniformly, being shunned by Mark but embraced by John.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 252 - 276
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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[17] See p. 262 and n. 19, below.

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[20] Eighth edition (Lutterworth, 1939).

[21] See Metzger, B. M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (London, 1971) 237.Google Scholar

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[24] Philology of the Gospels (London, 1898) 75 f.Google Scholar

[25] Ludwig, Traube, Nomina Sacra (Munich, 1906)Google Scholar, contains the relevant material. I hope to set out my own conclusions elsewhere.

[26] There is a brief reference to the relation of Coptic conjunctions with their Greek equivalents in Plumley, J. M., ‘Limitations of Coptic (Sahidic) in representing Greek’, Metzger, The Early Ver-sions, 149.Google Scholar A great deal can also be gathered from Crum, W. E., A Coptic Dictionary (Oxford, 1939).Google Scholar

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[28] For the relation of 157 to the bilingual tradition of D, see Hoskier, H. C., ‘Evan. 157 (Rome Vat. Urb. 2)’, II, J. T. S. 14 (1913) 243–5.Google Scholar

[29] The shape of letters in the context can be shown to be a major cause of casual error in the codex.

[30] Findlay, J. A., ‘On Variations in the Text of d and D’, Bulletin of the Bezan Club 9 (02, 1931) 10–11Google Scholar, gives as the total number of discrepancies, 107 in Mt, 106 in Jn, 176 in Lk, 469 in Mk, and 607 in Ac. His theory is that someone assimilated the Greek text to the Latin, but had had enough by the end of Luke. Scrivener, Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis, xxxixGoogle Scholar, claimed to have found a total of 1919 differences – 251 in Mt, 229 in Jn, 428 in Lk, 380 in Mk, and 631 in Ac. My provisional figures are: 103 in Mt, 122 in Jn, 229 in Lk, 343 in Mk, 600 in Ac.

[31] Glaue, Paul, ‘Der älteste Text der geschichtlichen Bücher des NT’ (Z.N.W. 65 (1954) 90–108)Google Scholar, puts forward evidence that Codex Bezae had an ancestor in cursive.

[32] Blass, F., Euangelium secundum Lucam … secundum formam quae videtur Romanam, Lipsiae 1897, ad loc.Google Scholar

[33] A Greek Grammar of the New Testament, translated by Funk, R. W. (Chicago, 1961).Google Scholar

[34] Die Harmonistik im Evangelientext des Codex Cantabrigiensis, T.U. 36, 1913.Google Scholar