Note 125 — Chapter II · MATERIALS OF THE TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. (continued 3)

In the Expository Times for October 1897, p. 13 ff., I have called attention to another instance in which a Scriptural quotation (Isaiah lii. 5) is given with remarkable similarity in the Apostolic Constitutions, with its original (i. 10, iii. 5, vii. 204), in Ignatius (Ad Trallianos, viii.), and in 2nd Clement (c. xiii.). Similar things are to be observed even in the N.T., as, e.g., in Mark i. 2, where a quotation from Malachi iii. 1 is inserted between the heading, “In the prophet Isaiah,” and the words taken from that book. But they are found also in the writings of Paul, which has led to the view that he may possibly have used some sort of dogmatic anthology of the O. T. Clement of Alexandria has a good many quotations from Philo. On his quotations from the Gospels, see P. M. Barnard, The Biblical Text of Clement of Alexandria in the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Texts and Studies, v. 5, Cambridge, 1899.