Note 276 — CRITICAL NOTES ON VARIOUS PASSAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

When examining Codex B I took occasion to look at certain other passages, and discovered some strange mistakes in Tischendorf’s statements with regard to that manuscript, as I did previously in the case of Codex D. In 3 John 13 B has ἀλλὰ for ἀλλ’, on which Tischendorf has no note. Westcott and Hort mention the passage in their Notes on Orthography, ii. p. 153, but say nothing about B. On Jude 5 we find Tischendorf saying in his Apparatus: ειδοτας sine υμας cum A B C2 ... ϛ (Gboo) add. υμας cum א K L. But υμας stands quite plain in B. Had they known this, Tischendorf and Westcott and Hort would certainly have printed their text differently. How far back this false testimony with regard to B extends I am unable to certify. It is found in Tischendorf’s seventh edition of 1859, and in Huther’s Commentary of the same date. I repeat my Ceterum censeo, that two or three sharp eyes should really revise the statements current about B. This one is repeated from Tischendorf by Baljon, Weiss, and all our Commentators. At the same time, Weiss has quite properly inserted υμας in his text, on the ground that while there was no occasion for its interpolation, its omission is quite conceivable. He will, no doubt, be gratified to see his reasoning confirmed by this weighty testimony afforded by Codex B.