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Most of the Q material has the saying-character and is strung together with that lack of all save topical order which we look for in a syntagma.

Lanes appeared between the syntagmata; a chorus of wild cries swelled up—swept nearer, and the furious riders of the desert came galloping through every interspace.

Two syntagmata, however, had taken refuge on the right in a bend of ground, had thrown away their arms, and were all kneeling with their faces towards the Punic tents imploring mercy with uplifted arms.

After the "witnesses," apostolic and other, had begun to disappear, a mere syntagma of Jesus' sayings could not suffice.

Some syntagmata composed of sturdy men, chosen expressly for the purpose, had broken in three gates.