Translations Compared: Eastern or Western?

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Hi Chuck,
Nicephorus, when drawing up his list
of canonical and apocryphal books, stated that the Gospel of the
Hebrews contained only 2200 lines, 300 fewer than Matthew. It has
been suggested that these three hundred lines are the birth narratives
of the first and second chapters of our canonical Matthew.

mmm, the first or (in other cases, like with Hebrews) last chapters are missing. Could that not just be loss because of use?