will very briefly
show the order in which these Epistles have been found in some of the
principal MSS. One of the earliest published was the ancient Latin
version of eleven Epistles edited by J. Faber Stapulensis in 1498, which
was at least quoted in the ninth century, and which in the subjoined
table I shall mark A, [84:2] and which also exhibits the order of Cod.
Vat. 859, assigned to the eleventh century. [84:3] The next (B) is a
Greek MS. edited by Valentinus Pacaeus in 1557, [84:4] and the order at
the same time represents that of the Cod. Pal. 150. [84:5] The third
(C) is the ancient Latin translation, referred to above, published
by Archbishop Usher. [84:6] The fourth (D) is the celebrated Medicean
MS. assigned to the eleventh century, and published by Vossius in 1646.
[84:7] This also represents the order of the Cod. Casanatensis G.V. 14.
[84:8] I italicise the rejected Epistles:

A. | B. | C. | D. |
FABER STAP. | VAL. PACAEUS. | USHER | VOSSIUS. |
| | | |
1. Trallians | _Mar. Cass._ | Smyrn. | Smyrn. |
2. Magn. | Trallians | Polycarp | Polycarp |
3. _Tarsians_ | Magnes. | Ephes. | Ephes. |
4. _Philip._ | _Tarsians_ | Magnes. | Magnes. |
5. Philad. | _Philip. | Philad. | Philad. |
6. Smyrn. | Philad. | Trallians | Trallians |
7. Polycarp | Smyrn. | _Mar. ad. Ign._ | _Mar. ad. Ign._ |
8. _Antioch._ | Polycarp | _Ign. ad. Mar._ | _Ign. ad. Mar._ |
9. _Hero_ | _Antioch. | _Tarsians_ | _Tarsians_ |
10. Ephes. | _Hero_ | _Antioch._ | |
11. Romans | Ephes. | _Hero_ | |
12. | Romans | _Mart. Ign._ | |
13. | | Romans | |

I have given the order in MSS. containing the "Long Recension" as well
as the Vossian, because, however much some may desire to exclude them,
the variety of arrangement is notable, and presents features which have
an undeniable bearing upon this question. Taking the Vossian MS., it is
obvious that, without any distinction whatever between the genuine and
the spurious, it contains three of the false Epist