MANUSCRIPTS FOUND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13101, 14 June 1913, Page 9

MANUSCRIPTS FOUND.

VERSES MISSING FROM STi AiARK.

LONDON, May 13. Somo long-missing verses of the New Testament are included m th© manuscripts of the gospels discovered m Egypt, six years ago, and purchased by Charles L. Freer of Detroit, Mich., according to a study made, of the Freer manuscripts by the Times

A facsimile of the manuscripts has been presented to the British Museum by tho University of Michigan, to which Mr Fraser assigned the task of publication, and according to th© Jtimes, there has been found m the Gospel of St. Mark, several verses which occur m no other manuscripts of the New Testament, although they were known to St. Jerome, who quotes them m part. ':','.;. ; ■ In the Freer manuscript, after the passage m which it is said, that Jesus upbraids his disciples for their unbelief, the text continues as follows : —

"And they excused themselves, saying that this age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan, who through the agency of unclean spirits', suffers not th© true power of God to-^be apprehended.

"For this cause, said they unto Christ, 'Reveal now, at, once, thy righteousness. "And Christ said unto them: 'The limit of , the years of the powers of Satan ia (not) fulfilled, but it draweth near.' (Th© text here, as elsewhere, is corrupt.) "For #the sake of those that have sinned was I given up unto death, that they may return unto the truth 'and sin no more, but may inherit the spiritual and incorruptible glory of righteousness m Heaven." /