Perhaps the most valuable part of the text is the multitude of Scriptural quotations included in it. As I have said in the Introduction to the previous volume, those from the Old Testament are all from the Sep- tuagint, and I subjoin a list of them. Those from the New Testament are, as was to be expected, mostly from the Peshitta, the authorized version of the Syrian Church, which has held its own, with hardly any variants, for about fifteen centuries. It is therefore remarkable to find some quotations which in their choice of expressions coincide preferably with the Old Syriac, and this is more than we should have expected, considering how many times the Didascalia must have been copied, and how strong the tendency would be for each succeeding scribe to supply the quotation from the version with which he was familiar. There are also a large number of New Testament quotations which coincide neither with the