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There is a strong tendency among critics, which seems rapidly approaching to a consensus, to regard this as bearing the same relation to the Peshito that the Old Latin does to Jerome's Vulgate, that of an older unrevised to a later revised version.
The proof of the Canon is embarrassed both by the general characteristics of the age in which it was fixed, and by the particular form of the evidence on which it first depends. The "original versions of the East and West" are carefully examined by him; the oldest is the "Peshito," in Syriac i.e., Aramæan, or Syro-Chaldaic.
This must, of course, be only a translation of the Testament, if it be true that the original books were written in Greek. The Peshito omits the second and third epistles of John, second of Peter, that of Jude, and the Apocalypse. All the evidence so laboriously gathered together by the learned Canon proves our proposition to demonstration.
The canon of Muratori, about A.D. 160, omits Hebrews, both epistles of Peter, James and Jude, as uncanonical, and expresses doubts as to the Revelation. The Peshito Syriac, about A.D. 200, omits Second Peter, Jude, Second and Third John and Revelation. The Latin Version Itala, about the middle of the second century, omits James and Second Peter.
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