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inquiry. § 3. Smaller blemishes in MSS. unimportant except when constant. § 4. Most mistakes arose from inadvertency: many from unfortunate design. pp. 10-23
CHAPTER II.
Accidental Causes of Corruption. I. Pure Accident.
§ 1. St. John x. 29. § 2. Smaller instances, and Acts xx. 24. § 3. St. Luke ii. 14. § 4. St. Mark xv. 6; vii. 4; vi. 22. § 5. St. Mark viii. 1; vii. 14--St. John xiii. 37. pp. 24-35
CHAPTER III.
Accidental Causes of Corruption. II. Homoeoteleuton.
St. Luke ii. 15--St. John vi. 11; vi. 55--St. Matt. xxiii. 14; xix. 9--St. Luke xvi. 21. pp. 36-41
CHAPTER IV.
Accidental Causes of Corruption. III. From Writing in Uncials.
§ 1. St. John iv. 35-36. § 2. St. Luke xv. 17--St. John v. 44. § 3. Acts xxvii. 14--St. John iv. 15--St. Luke xvii. 37--St. Matt. xxii. 23--and other passages. § 4. St. John v. 4--St. Luke xxiii. 11--St. Matt. iv. 23. § 5. 2 St. Peter i. 31--Heb. vii. 1. § 6. St. Matt. xxvii. 17. pp. 42-55
CHAPTER V.
Accidental Causes of Corruption. IV. Itacism.
§ 1. Various passages--St. John xii. 1, 2; 41. § 2. Rev. i. 5--Other passages--St. Mark vii. 19. § 3. St. Mark iv. 8. § 4. Titus ii. 5. pp. 56-66
CHAPTER VI.
Accidental Causes of Corruption. V. Liturgical Influence.
§ 1. Lectionaries of the Church--Liturgical influence--Antiquity of the Lectionary System. § 2. St. John xiv. 1--Acts iii. 1--Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark. § 3. St. Luke vii. 31; ix. 1--Other passages. § 4. St. Mark xv. 28. § 5. Acts iii. 1--St. Matt. xiii. 44; xvii. 23. § 6. St. Matt vi. 13 (doxology in the Lord's Prayer). pp. 67-88
CHAPTER VII.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. I. Harmonistic Influence.
§ 1. St. Mark xvi. 9. § 2. St. Luke xxiv. 1--other examples. § 3. Chiefly intentional--Diatessarons--St. Matt. xvii. 25, 26--Harmonized narratives--Other examples. pp. 89-99
CHAPTER VIII.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. II. Assimilation.
§ 1. Transfer from one Gospel to another. § 2. Not entirely intentional--Various passages. § 3. St. John xvi. 16. § 4. St. John xiii. 21-25. § 5. St. Mark i. 1, 2--Other examples--St. Matt. xii. 10 (St. Luke xiv. 3)--and others. § 6. St. Mark vi. 11. § 7. St. Mark xiv. 70. pp. 100-122
CHAPTER IX.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. III. Attraction.
§ 1. St. John vi. 71 and xiii. 26. § 2. Acts xx. 24--2 Cor. iii. 3. pp. 123-127
CHAPTER X.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. IV. Omission.
§ 1. Omissions a class of their own--Exemplified from the Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark--Omission the besetting fault of transcribers. § 2. The onus probandi rests upon omitters. § 3. St Luke vi. 1; and other omissions. § 4. St. Matt. xxi. 44. § 5. St. Matt. xv. 8. § 6. St. Matt. v. 44--Reply to the Reviewer in the Guardian. § 7. Shorter Omissions. pp. 128-156
CHAPTER XI.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. V. Transposition.
§ 1. St. Mark i. 5; ii. 3--Other instances. § 2. St. Luke xiii. 9; xxiv. 7. § 3. Other examples--St. John v. 27--Transpositions often petty, but frequent.
VI. Substitution.
§ 4. If taken with Modifications, a large class--Various instances. pp. 164-165
VII. Addition.
§ 5. The smallest of the four--St. Luke vi. 4--St. Matt. xx. 28. § 6. St. Matt. viii. 13; xxiv. 36--St. Mark iii. 16--Other examples. pp. 166-171
CHAPTER XII.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. VIII. Glosses.
§ 1. Not so numerous as has been supposed--St. Matt. xiii. 36--St. Mark vii. 3. § 2. St. Luke ix. 23. § 3. St. John vi. 15; xiii. 24; xx. 18--St. Matt. xxiv. 31. § 4. St. John xviii. 14--St. Mark vi. 11. § 5. St. Mark xiv. 41--St. John ix. 22. § 6. St. John xii. 7. § 7. St. John xvii. 4. § 8. St. Luke i. 66. § 9. St. Luke v. 7--Acts xx. 4. pp. 172-190
CHAPTER XIII.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. IX. Corruption by Heretics.
§ 1. This class very evident--Began in the earliest times--Appeal to what is earlier still--Condemned in all ages and countries. § 2. The earliest depravers of the Text--Tatian's Diatessaron. § 3. Gnostics--St. John i. 3-4. § 4. St. John x. 14, 15. § 5. Doctrinal--Matrimony--St. Matt i. 19. pp. 191-210
CHAPTER XIV.
Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional. X. Corruption by the Orthodox.
§ 1. St. Luke xix. 41; ii. 40. § 2. St. John viii. 40; and i. 18. § 3. 1 Cor. xv. 47. § 4. St. John iii. 13. § 5. St. Luke ix. 54-56. pp. 211-231
APPENDIX I.
Pericope de Adultera. pp. 233-265
APPENDIX II.
Dr. Hort's Theory of Conflation and the Neutral Text. pp. 266-286
Index of Subjects. pp. 287-288
Index of Passages of the New Testament Discussed. pp. 289-290

THE CAUSES OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY GOSPELS.

INTRODUCTION.
In the companion volume to this, the Traditional Text, that is, the Text of the Gospels which is the resultant of all the evidence faithfully and exhaustively presented and estimated according to the best procedure