The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 403 



As to the readings ^^'hich k has in common with SB he sa^-s that 

 they "must have come in at a remote stage before the Greek and 

 Latin texts in the ancestors of k were separated, in fact either be- 

 fore the Western text branched off at all or soon after the point of 

 parting." 



Back of k Sanday infers a still older form of the version, "a form 

 not much dissimilar from k, but with some features of greater anti- 

 quity." (p. xc.) 



"The common archetype of k and Cyprian is, if not quite, yet 

 very nearly the most primitive form that we can trace. Every 

 step that w^e take toward recovering it seems to widen the gap 

 which separates it from the other stem or stems, including a, b, 

 and d." (p. Ixvii.) 



We conclude, therefore, that the ' African Latin ' as represented by 

 k, differs from other forms of the Old Latin version not only in its 

 language, but also in its underlying Greek text. Such 'Western' 

 elements as it shares specifically with the O.L. seem to have come in 

 relatively late. 



This Greek text differs noticeably from the eclectic texts of the 

 fourth century both Greek and Latin. 



"For the most part the interpolations of this, the oldest con- 

 tinuous Latin text of the Gospels that has some down to us are to 

 a large extent not the interpolations of the eclectic text and its 

 omissions are not their omissions ; moreover its renderings are not 

 the renderings of the later revised Latin texts such as the Vulgate 

 and its immediate predecessors. All this tends to show that the 

 Latin text of the third century had to a large extent escaped re- 

 vision from Greek sources ; in other words that the Greek text 

 implied by k and its companions is that which underlies the original 



translations." td i -x^ t- i t^ui 



Burkitt, Encyl. Bibl. 



It has considerable affinity with the early Alexandrian text as 

 represented by XB and agrees with it in omitting the longer con- 

 clusion. 



It also has affinities with the Old Syriac as represented by Ss 

 'n its tendency toward abridgment, in its significant omission of a 

 clause in Mt. 1 : 25, and again in its omission of the longer ending. 

 In spite of the fragmentary character of the witness of k and of Sc, 

 which omits all of Mark save the last few verses, Baethgen (Evan- 

 gelienfragmente p. 80) finds that it has special affinities with Sc, 

 as does e the only other representative of 'African Latin' in the 

 Gospels. 



