22, 23. Zahn has a strong impression that this passage lies
at the foundation of Didache, ii. 7: ov mioijrets TavTa GVO pwr or,
GAG ols mev EdXCyE«ts, TEpt Oé GY TpoTEvEN, Os Je KyaTnTELS
UTep THY Wuxijv cov. If this is really so, we have here a piece
of very early testimony, not certainly to the actual words, but
to the thought conveyed. See Eznlectung, ii. 86.
Subscription: At the end of the Armenian Bible of 1698
we find a note to the effect that “this epistle was written in
the year 64 by Judas Jacobi, who is also called Lebbaeus and
Thaddaeus, and who preached the Gospel to the Armenians
and the Persians.”


APOCALYPSE.
Apart from particular passages, the last book of the Bible
cannot be unreservedly recommended to the devout laity for
special study, but it is peculiarly well adapted as an introduc-
tion to the method of textual criticism, and that for two
reasons. First of all, because the number of available wit-
nesses to the text is comparatively small, and, secondly,
because these are more easily grouped here than in the other
divisions of the New Testament. Reference may be made in
this connection to the first part of Bousset’s critical studies on
the text of the Apocalypse, where the distinction drawn by
Bengel between the Andreas and Arethas groups of manu-
scripts is correctly emphasized. At the same time Bousset
himself comes to the rather unsatisfactory conclusion that an
eclectic mode of procedure is all that is possible at present.
An attempt has been made above (p. 157) with the conclusion
of the Apocalypse. We shall now try a few further examples.
