From: Carlton Winbery (winberyc@speedgate.net)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 22:40:19 EDT
>To: Theodore H. Mann,
>
><< What are the "Eusebian Canon Tables"?
>
>Early in the 4th century, Eusebius of Caesarea developed a marginal
>reference system for the four Gospels. Since at that time the NT did not
>have chapters nor verses, he divided each Gospel into sections. Matthew was
>divided into 355 sections, Mark, 233, Luke 342, and John 232. Then sections
>which were had parallels were collected in Canons. Thus (for example) in
>Canon 1, section 8 of Matthew (3:3), section 2 of Mark (1:3), section 7 of
>Luke (3:3-6), and section 10 of John (1:23), are deemed to be parallel
>according to this Eusebian system.
>
>-Steven Craig Miller
>Alton, Illinois (USA)
>scmiller@www.plantnet.com
>
Steven Craig Miller and Peter Scott have both given a good answer as to
what the tables are. I would add that Eusebius' letter preceeding the
tables in the Nestle texts makes it clear that Eusebius used the numbers in
the gospels that had been entered into the text of the gospels by Ammonius
of Alexandria.
Dr. Carlton L. Winbery
Foggleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
winbery@speedgate.net
winbery@andria.lacollege.edu
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