The Appendices to the Gospel according to Mark. 421 



14 tva TY]v £V Tw oupavco 7;v(£U[j.aT)ixYiv xai, a 



15 cpGap-Qv TTj? Bixaioo-uvTj; So^av 



16 xXY)povo[j.Yi<rwG-!,v o(.Wy. TCopsuOsv 



In line 1 the MS reads axs}.OYOtJVT£ and in line 10 Siva. 

 Lines 3, 4. Goodspeed amends to uxo tov Ha^avav sttiv, ['r]o[v] 

 IJ.Y] £wv-a UTio Twv 7:v(£U[j.)a'i:(ov [twv] axaOapTcov. He connects this 

 with Justin Martyr and his " plaintive demonology " ; "The so-called 

 demons strive for nothing else than to lead men away from God the 

 Creator, and his first-born, Christ." (I Apol. 58). Thus. he finds a 

 connection with the latter half of the second century. Nestle agrees 

 save that he deletes the 6 and does not insert twv. 



Lines 4, 5. tyjv a>vYjGEiav toD G(£o)0 xccTaXajBeaGai Buvapv. Sanders 

 amends by inserting xai before Suva[iiv. Gregory objects that oCkf\- 

 b-£iav and Buva[j.!,v are too far apart and suggests reading v.\r\b'ivr\^ for 

 a}.rjG£tav, supporting it by Jerome's "veram virtutem." 



Line 9. For oiXka Siva most would correct to a};>.a Ssiva but some 

 suggest otXkoL TWO, which seems less probable. The connection be- 

 tween lines 9 and 10 is obscure. 



Line 11. Sanders amends to bizl^ twv a[j,apTyia-avT:tov syw suggest- 

 ing that syw is here placed twelve letters too early because the arche- 

 type had twelve letters to the line as S and therefore this word, 

 inserted above the end of one line, was copied by th6 scribe at the 

 end of the preceding. 



The following translation incorporates most of the suggestions of 

 Goodspeed and Sanders : 



And they made excuse, saying, "This age of lawlessness and 

 unbelief is under Satan, who by the unclean spirits does not allow 

 (sc. men) power to comprehend the truth of God. For this reason 

 reveal thy righteousness now," they said to Christ. 



And Christ replied to them, "The limit of the years of the power 

 of Satan has been fulfilled, but other terrible things are near at 

 hand. And I was delivered unto death on behalf of those who 

 sinned, in order that they may return to the truth and sin no more, 

 to the end that they may inherit the spiritual and incorruptible 

 glory of righteousness (which glory is) in heaven. But go ye into 

 all thf world," etc. 



As to the text of the Freer MS it seems to be singularly pure and 

 free from late additions and corrections, although the scribe was a 

 careless one and examples of metathesis, dittography, and slight 

 omissions and insertions are found. As to its character and affinities. 

 Prof. Edgar J. Goodspeed says : 



