WITH regard to the title, Westcott and Hort say (/utroduction,
§ 423, p. 321): “In prefixing the name EYAITTEAION in
the singular to the quaternion of ‘the Gospels,’ we have
wished to supply the antecedent which alone gives an
adequate sense to the preposition KATA in the several titles.
The idea, if not the name, of a collective ‘Gospel’ is implied
throughout the well-known passage in the third book of
Irenzus, who doubtless received it from earlier generations.
It evidently preceded and produced the commoner usage by
which the term Gospel denotes a single written representation
of the one fundamental Gospel.” Compare Zahn, GX., i. 106 ff. ;
Etnlectung, ii. 172 ff., 178 f.: “Of recent editors, Westcott and
Hort have most faithfully interpreted the original idea by
setting EvayyéXrov on the fly-leaf, and cara Ma@@aior, etc.,
over the separate books.” I have followed the same principle
in the Table of Contents prefixed to the Stuttgart edition of
the New Testament. Compare above, pp. 164, 165. On the
spelling Ma@@aios, instead of Mar@aios, compare on the one
hand the LX X. manuscripts, which exhibit the forms Ma@aua,
Mad0ana, MarO0ana; Marradias, MatOafias, MaOOa@ias (see
Supplement I. to Hatch and Redpath’s Concordance to the


248 GREEK NEW TESTAMENT. [MATT.
Septuagint), and on the other, Blass’s Grammatik des neutesta-
mentlichen Griechisch, § 3, 11 conga Trans. by Thackeray,
1898, p. I1).
i. 16. There are three forms of the text here—

(1) "Iwan tov avdpa Mapias, &€ jis eyevijOn “Incovs o
Neyouevos Xpicros: all our Greek uncials and almost all the
minuscules.
(2) "Iwond, © pryorevOeica tap0évos Mapia éyévwnoey Tov
‘Incotyv (tov Aeyouevov) Xpiorov: most of the Old Latin
(ad g,kq, with bc similarly), Curetonian Syriac, Armenian,
and four minuscules—viz., 346, 556, 624, 626, with slight
divergencies.
