but very much less with B, and decidedly not with D or א. It is a text neither “Western” nor “Syrian,” and yet not precisely the text of B, though agreeing with it in the more important variants. Thus it possesses precisely the characteristics which Hort would assign to his “Alexandrian” text, though (as it comes from Central Egypt and has no demonstrable connexion with Alexandria) it might perhaps more properly be called “Egyptian”; and if we had the whole MS. we might apparently possess a complete