Hilgenfeld, _Einleitung_, p.805.It hardly seems clear that Origen had _no_ MS.

authority for his reading.
[324:6] _Introduction_, p.530.But [Greek: oupo] is admitted into the text by Westcott and Hort.
[324:7] 'The text of the Curetonian Gospels is in itself a sufficient proof of the extreme antiquity of the Syriac Version.
This, as has been already remarked, offers a striking resemblance to that of the Old Latin, and cannot be later than the middle or close of the second century.

It would be difficult to point out a more interesting subject for criticism than the respective relations of the Old Latin and Syriac Versions to the Latin and Syriac Vulgates.

But at present it is almost untouched.' Westcott, _On the Canon_ (3rd ed.), p.

218, n.