/i20 Clarence Russell Williams, 



est, qui^ sinit per immundos spiritus veram Dei apprehendi vir- 



tutcm. Idcirco iam nunc revela iustitiam tuam." 



Contra Pelag. II, If). 



Jerome does not tell us where he found these MSS and no such codex 

 was known until the announcement in February 1908 that the saying 

 had been discovered in one of the four MSS w'hich Mr. Charles L. Freer 

 of Detroit bought on December 19, 1906 from an Arab dealer, Ali 

 Arabi in Gizeh near Cairo. The dealer declared the four MSS came 

 from Akhmim (ancient Panopolis) in Upper Egypt. These MSS con- 

 tained parts of the Greek Bible of both the Old and New Testaments, 

 written by different scribes, and ranged in date from the fourth or fifth 

 to the eighth or ninth centuries. 



It is with the third of these manuscripts, that containing the four 

 Gospels, that we have to do in this discussion, since it is found to 

 contain inserted in Mark 16 between the fourteenth and fifteenth 

 verses not only the defence of the disciples, which Jerome had quoted, 

 but also the answer of Jesus, which had previously been entirely 

 unknown. To the saying of Jesus in this codex has been given the 

 name of "the Freer Logion" though the manuscripts themselves, 

 first called the "Detroit Manuscripts" and then the "Freer MSS," 

 are, according to the recent volumes reproducing in facsimile the 

 first and the third manuscripts, to be known as the "Washington 

 Manuscripts" since they are to be ultimately placed in the Smith- 

 sonian Institute at Washington, D.C., a gift to the people of the U.S. 



The text of the Freer Logion, with two slight corrections of 

 scribal errors, reads as follows: 



1 xdcxsTvoi c>:7:£}>oYot>vT(o) /iyov-sc oti 6 



2 auov oOto; Trj5 avopac; xai tTj? aTCio-riac 



3 brJj Tov Za^avav sairiv o [j.7] swv Ttx bizo 



4 Toiv 7:v(£U[j.)aT0)v axaOapTa T-rjv oOa]bzi/xv 



5 ToO 6"(£o)0 Y.oc-ockcc^i'jb'xi B'jva[j,iv Bia 



6 toOto of.-oy.d\u'])ov toO ty]v Btxaioau 



7 v"/]v TjB-/] sxsTvot zkzyjv zm X(pi(7-)co xai 6 



8 X{ki(7x6)^ sxsivoti; -jzprjcilzyev 6-t. ■:zz~7J]^<.<i 



9 Tai 6 opoc Toiv Itwv ty]? Icoocriocc ~o\j 



10 Ha-rava ully. lyyiCti ukla B(£)i,va xai 6 



11 Trip o)v lyt-) a|j.apTrjcravT(ov xap£B60YjV 



12 elc, bayccxo'^ i'va uTTOc-Tpl'jjcoCTiv dc Tr,v 



13 dcT.'^Osiav xal [^-yixetti a[xapTr,(7too-tv 



1 quae in MSS. 



