Footnotes (continued 3)

449.

We are compelled to draw a sharp distinction between γεγεννημένος and γεννηθείς in the same context, and, with all deference to the Quarterly Reviewer (April, 1882, p. 366), we do not think his view of the matter more natural than that given in the text: “St. John,” he suggests, “is distinguishing between the mere recipient of the new birth (ὁ γεννηθεὶς ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ),—and the man who retains the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit which he received when he became regenerate (ὁ γεγεννημένος ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ).” [The distinction given between the perfect and aorist, as I have altered it in the text, is perfectly just, and explains the passage. The effects of regeneration if continued are indefectible, but the mere fact of regeneration entails constant watchfulness.]

450.

So it certainly seems to me after careful inspection of Cod. A, although it may be too bold to say, as some have, that there are in it no corrections by later hands. Above in ver. 10 ἐν ἀυτῷ is supported by ABKLP and a shower of cursives in the room of ἐν ἑαυτῷ of א and the Received text, but here there is no difference of sense between the two forms. Dr. Hort (Introd., Notes, p. 144) has an exhaustive and cautious note on the breathing of αυτου, αυτῳ, &c., and ultimately declines to exclude the aspirate from the N. T.

451.

The Revision Revised, pp. 247-8.

452.

For a very full and clear account of a MS. of this class, the reader may consult an article by Prof. Isaac H. Hall in the “Journal of the American Oriental Society,” vol. xi, No. 2, 1885.

453.

It is not meant that these terms occur as titles. Apostolos (ܫܥܝܐ or ܐܝܥܫ) as applied to a book means the fourteen Epp. of St. Paul. Evangeliom, in the sense of Evangelistary in a title, is quoted in “Thesaurus Syriacus.” But many liturgical terms were borrowed from the Greeks, especially by the Maronites. For a succinct account of Greek and Latin Service Books, see Pelliccia's “Polity” (tr. Bellett, 1883), pp. 183-8: for the Syriac system, see Etheridge's “Syrian Churches,” pp. 112-6.