388 Clarence Russell Williams, 



Zahn, In the Thcologischt- Litoraturblalt, Leipzig, for Dec. 22 ? 1893. Trans- 

 lation by Conybeare in the Expositor, Sept. 1894, pp. 220-226. 

 Argues the compiler of 16 : 9-20 took vs. 14 18 from Papias 

 who had derived them from Aristion. The rubric to be traced to 

 "a learned man oi the fourth or fifth century." 

 Kesch, Alfred, Ausser-Canonische Paralleltexte zu den Evangelien, T. und I'. 

 X Band, Heft 3, p. 449. Translation by Conybeare in the Expo- 

 sitor, Sept. 1894, pp. 226-232. 



The rubric refers to Ariston of Pella, redactor of the oldest Gospel 

 canon who is its author 



Ariston of Pella is here indicated as the author of these verses, 

 and he must therefore have been the redactor of the earliest Gospel 

 canon. 

 Conybeare, "On the Last Twelve \'erses of St. Mark's Gospel. The Ex- 

 positor, Dec. 1895, pp. 401-421. (Series V, No. xii.) 

 A reply. 

 Bacon, B. W., "Against the Authorship of the Last Verses of Mark." 

 The Expositor, Dec. 1905, pp. 401-412. (Series VI, Vol. XIL) 

 The scribe meant Ariston of Pella, thinking he was the secretary 

 of the Evangelist Mark. A late and mistaken tradition. 

 Bacon, "Aristo." Hasting's Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels in loco. 



A further discussion of the above theory. 

 Bacon, B. W., Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. XXX, Pt. I, 1911, pp. 

 105-107. 



Contains the note b}- Prof. Bartlett concerning the mistaken in- 

 ference from the gloss in the codex of Kufinus. 



The Egypiian Versions 



Egypt is of great significance in the history of the New Testament 

 as the home of the non-Western text. In importance therefore the 

 Egyptian Versions of the South rank next to the Sj-riac versions of the 

 East and the Latin versions of the West. The history of the conclu- 

 sions of Mark must now be traced, as far as possible, in the versions 

 of Egypt. 



The present classification of tlie dialects of Egypt divides them into 

 Bohairic (Memphitic), tlie dialect of the district about Alexandria ; 

 the Middle Egyptian, which includes the Memphitic, Fayyumic, 

 Akhmimic, etc. ; and the Sahidic (Thebaic), the dialect of Upper Egyi^t. 



The Bohairic, originally spoken in the district about Alexandria, 

 was the most literary of the dialects of Egypt, and ultimately super- 

 seded them all. This version then became, what it still remains, the 

 official version of the Cojitic Church throughout the countr}-. Tlie 



