Chapter VIII. Alexandria and Caesarea. § 1. Alexandrian Readings, and the Alexandrian School. What is the real truth about the existence of an Alexandrian Text? Are there, or are there not, sufficient elements of an Alexandrian character, and of Alexandrian or Egyptian origin, to constitute a Text of the Holy Gospels to be designated by that name? So thought Griesbach, who conceived Origen to be the standard of the Alexandrian text. Hort, who appears to have attributed to his Neutral text much of the native products of Alexandria182 , speaks more of readings than of text. The question must be decided upon the evidence of the case, which shall now be in the main produced. The Fathers or ancient writers who may be classed as Alexandrian in the period under consideration are the following:—
Heracleon Clement of Alexandria Dionysius of Alexandria Theognosius Peter of Alexandria 182
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