THE SYRIAN CHURCHES:

THEIR

EARLY HISTORY, LITURGIES, AND LITERATURE.

WITH

A LITERAL TRANSLATION

OF

THE FOUR GOSPELS,

FROM THE PESCHITO,

OR

CANON OF HOLY SCRIPTURE IN USE AMONG THE ORIENTAL CHRISTIANS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.

BY J. W. ETHERIDGE, M.A.,

DOCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, AND MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

MDCCCXLVI.