The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 393 



"In the margin is written by the ordinary early corrector 'And 

 all the (things) which he ordered to them who came after Peter, 

 (lit. and) openly they spake of them. And after these (things) in- 

 deed, again Jesus appeared to them from the risings of (the) sun 

 until his settings, and he sent them to preach (lit. throw) (the) good 

 tidings, holy, imperishable, of the eternal hfe. Amen. These 

 (words) themselves are belonging to those : (viz) And after these 

 (things) troubles and perplexities seized them : and they said not 

 a word to anybody, for they were fearing.'" 

 This MS was written, as it testifies, in 1173—4 "by Theod(orus of) 

 Puseri (Busir), monk of the Laura of S. Makari (Macarius)" a mon- 

 astery still existing in the Nitrian desert, southwest of Cairo, whence 

 it was brought by Robert Curzon in 1838. It is now in the Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford. 



"The importance of this MS," to quote Lightfoot, "consists in a 

 great measure in its marginal additions, which are very frequent. The 

 text seems to give the original Bohairic Version in a very pure form ; 

 while the margin supplies all, or very nearly all the passages which 

 in fewer or greater numbers have crept into the text of other Bohairic 

 MSS, and which (as far as regards the Bohairic Version itself) must be 

 regarded as interpolations, whatever sanctions they may have in 

 Greek MSS or other ancient authorities." (Scrivener's Introduction, 

 II, p. 111.) 



We see then that it forms a close parallel to the Harclean Syriac, 

 through it seems to have had a different ancestry (cf. Burkitt, Encycl. 

 Bibl. iv, col. 5010). 



Notice that in this MS the Shorter Ending is not preceded by any 

 note, but is concluded by the Amen ; that the text is confused ; that 

 the usual note follows with a repetition of the latter part of v. 8. in 

 the strange form, "And after these things troubles and perplexities 

 seized them : and they said not a word to anybody, for they were 

 fearing." 



Zahn declares that this usual note and the supplement to the Shorter 

 Ending found in this MS has nothing to do with the Longer Ending, 

 but is a modification of v. 8 b, and that the marginal gloss must have 

 originated from a MS in which the Shorter Ending with the Amen 

 formed the proper ending of the Gospel, and yet it was remarked that 

 certain other MSS read the quoted supplement to the Shorter Ending 

 besides this. 



Now this last MS gives evidence of a bold attempt to conform the 

 text of the Shorter Ending and v. 8 ; dealing with the matter in a 

 manner parallel to k where, as we shall see v. 8 has been modified 



