Thursday, December 18, 2025

Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures (in the section “On the Gospel by Saint Mark”), on p. 304

I. THE TITLE of the Gospel by Saint Mark is, in the Vatican manuscript, κατα Μαρκον, according to Mark. In the Alexandrian MS., the Codex Bezæ, the Codex Regius, 62 (formerly 2862, Stephani *), and some other editions, it is To κατα Μαρκον Ευαγγελιον, the Gospel according to Mark; and in some manuscripts and editions, To κατα Μαρκον αγιον Ευαγγελιον, the Holy Gospel according to Mark, or (as in the authorized English version), the Gospel according to Saint Mark. In the Syriac version, in Bishop Walton’s Polyglott, it is entitled “The Gospel of the Evangelist Mark;” in the Arabic version, “The Gospel of St. Mark the Apostle, which he wrote in the Roman [tongue] by the inspiration of the Spirit of Holiness;” and in the Persian version, “The beginning of the Gospel of Mark, which was written at Rome, in the Latin tongue.”


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