The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 367 



Place The region of Antioch. 



Inferences Through the influence of Tatian's Diatessaron, the Longer 



Conclusion gained a recognized place in the Old Syriac 



Version. 



Peshitto. 



The Peshitto (Sp) contains the Longer Conclusion alone in all MSS, 

 save one where it has been accompanied by the Shorter Con- 

 clusion in the margin, due to the influence of later versions. 



Text .... The Greek text current at Antioch about 400 A.D. 



Date .... 411 A.D. 



Place .... Edessa. 



Inferences By the fifth century the Longer Conclusion had gained 

 undisputed position in the Syriac versions. 



Harclean Syriac. 

 The Harclean Syriac contains the Shorter Conclusion in the margin 

 of at least two MSS. 



Text The Greek Text of Alexandria about 600 A.D. 



Date .... 616 A.D. 

 Place .... Alexandria. 



Inferences In one or more MSS found at Alexandria at the beginning 

 of the seventh century the Shorter Conclusion was found. 



Discussion. 



To rightly weigh and estimate the evidence of the Syriac versions 

 a brief discussion of the relations of our earliest representatives of the 

 Gospels in Syriac will be necessary, since, as Burkitt says, "almost 

 everything that relates to the origin and early history of- the Syriac 

 versions is the subject of controversy." While following in the main 

 the theory of Prof. Burkitt, "the convincing theory which at present 

 holds the field" (Norman M'Lean in Encycl. Brit.), we follow Mrs, 

 Lewis, Hjelt, Merx, Blass, and others in considering Ss earlier than T. 



Tatian supplies us with a fixed date for our discussion, for we know 

 he went to Rome about the middle of the second century, became a 

 follower, and later a fellow worker of Justin Martyr, through whom he 

 may have been converted to Christianity, and after some years resi- 

 dence departed for the East about 172 A.D., a date fixed with con- 

 siderable certainly by Zahn (Forschungen, I, p. 283). 



Returning to Syria he completed and issued, perhaps at Edessa, his 

 Diatessaron or Harmony of the Four Gospels, in the Syriac language. 

 This work attained great popularity in the Syrian Church, and became 



