recension

Lastly it should be recollected that the entire body of the fragments of tradition and literature belonging to northern Israel has come down to us through the channel of Judaean recensions.

Some restraint thus was exercised, and this provision was retained in the recension of the code in 1415.

A book, De miraculis, composed of extracts from Bede, was appended along with these three epistles to the later recensions of the Historia.

The whole verse is omitted in the unrevised Septuagint, but in a later recension the number thirty is inserted.”

Although, no doubt, of Hesiodic origin, in its present form it is composed of different recensions and numerous later additions and interpolations.