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writer, upon such a basis one might argue that the author of the 

 anonymous prophecy called in our Bible "Malachi," wrote in Rome, 

 for he says, " From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of 

 the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles." (Mai. 

 1 : 11.) We might even argue that the writer of this prophecy was 

 not a Jew at all but a Gentile. 



During the course of this investigation, it has been a constant 

 source of surprise to find that every assured fact gleaned from the 

 history of MSS and from the families of text to which these MSS be- 

 long, point to Egypt as the original home of the Shorter Conclusion. 

 Not only do the Greek MSS in which it is contained come from that 

 country, but the versions in which it is known associate themselves 

 with the same section, and the texts represented in the MSS and 

 underlying the versions are all more or less closely associated with 

 the types of text found in Alexandria. 



No textual evidence has been found which would certainly associate 

 the Shorter Conclusion with Rome. On the contrary, the testimony 

 of all the Greek uncials and all the versions associated with the 

 authority of Rome seem uniformly to support the authenticity of the 

 Longer Conclusion. 



The suggested Roman acceptance of the Longer Conclusion and 

 the Alexandrian origin of the Shorter Conclusion agree with the testi- 

 mony of the Fathers, newly discovered MSS, the Freer Logion, and 

 the recognized fact that there early arose a difference between the 

 text of the Gospels as read at Rome and at Alexandria. 



Realizing that the question of the authenticity of either of these 

 conclusions is no longer in debate among critics, and that the Shorter 

 Conclusion is, in itself, unimportant, this fresh study of the problem 

 has been undertaken with the hope that through it a little additional 

 light might be thrown upon the history of the New Testament in the 

 early Christian Church. 



