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“ It also supplies the lacunæ, notably chapters 57 (concluding sentence) —63 inclusive of the first Epistle and chapters 12 (concluding sentences) —20, being the close of the second Epistle. Harnack seems to prove that the new ms. is as complete as the original Alexandrian.
The lacuna of the first Epistle consists mainly of a prayer, the writer somewhat abruptly passing from the oratio obliqua to the oratio recta. The prayer is indicative of intense earnestness and emotion rather than official authority. ”