. Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts : being a history of the text and its translations. ^ THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 125 the character of the writing shows that it can hardly be later thanthe fourth century. The oldest coiTector, K% is not much laterthan the manuscript itself, and must have made his correctionsfrom a very good and ancient copy. J<^ is of the sixth century;{<=, a very active con-ector, of the seventh; the othere, later andof small importance. A study of the facsimile page will show something of the way irwhich manuscripts were written and corrected, besides
. Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts : being a history of the text and its translations. ^ THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 125 the character of the writing shows that it can hardly be later thanthe fourth century. The oldest coiTector, K% is not much laterthan the manuscript itself, and must have made his correctionsfrom a very good and ancient copy. J<^ is of the sixth century;{<=, a very active con-ector, of the seventh; the othere, later andof small importance. A study of the facsimile page will show something of the way irwhich manuscripts were written and corrected, besides providinga specimen of the readings of K in an important passage. Thepage contains Luke 22. 20-52, though it has been necessary toomit eight lines from the top of each column in the plate. InV. 2,2 (the first line of the plate), K has for (ox*) in place of thereceived text and ; and, as the note in the Variorum Bibleshows, X is supported by B, D, and L among the principal MSS.,while A heads the mass of later uncials and cursives whichcontain the received reading. Of the editors. Tische
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