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Syriac Version of the Pshittha does not contain the so-called
"Essential" or "Institutional Words," now extant in St. Luke
(xxii. 17, 18, 19). The last twelve verses of the sixteenth
chapter of the Second Gospel are not to be found in the old
Greek manuscripts. The so-called "Lord's prayer" (Matt.
vi. 9; Luke xi. 2) is unknown to the authors of the Second
and Fourth Gospels. In fact, many important teachings con-
tained in one Gospel were unknown to the Churches which
did not possess it. Consequently there could possibly be no
uniformity of worship, discipline, authority, belief, command-
ments, and law in the Early Church, just as there is none
now. All that we can gather from the literature of the New
Testament is that the Christians in the Apostolical age had
the Jewish Scriptures for their Bible, with a Gospel containing
the true revelation made to Jesus, and that its substance was
"Essential" or "Institutional Words," now extant in St. Luke
(xxii. 17, 18, 19). The last twelve verses of the sixteenth
chapter of the Second Gospel are not to be found in the old
Greek manuscripts. The so-called "Lord's prayer" (Matt.
vi. 9; Luke xi. 2) is unknown to the authors of the Second
and Fourth Gospels. In fact, many important teachings con-
tained in one Gospel were unknown to the Churches which
did not possess it. Consequently there could possibly be no
uniformity of worship, discipline, authority, belief, command-
ments, and law in the Early Church, just as there is none
now. All that we can gather from the literature of the New
Testament is that the Christians in the Apostolical age had
the Jewish Scriptures for their Bible, with a Gospel containing
the true revelation made to Jesus, and that its substance was