The Age of the Peshitta

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'It is submitted,---FIRST, that there is ground for belief that this text has been so correctly copied, that it has come down to us WITHOUT MATERIAL CHANGE FROM THE FIRST CENTURY. As Dr. Scrivener says, "The Syriac was cited by Melito as early as A.D. 170," and history leaves "no room to doubt what that version was." It was the Peshito.' -William Norton, A Translation, in English Daily Used, of the Peshito-Syriac Text, and of the Received Greek Text, of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 1 John: With An Introduction On the Peshito-Syriac Text, and the Revised Greek Text of 1881, page CCXXIII (220)