The passage is one where almost every word and syllable might easily and naturally be altered--as the third Gospel shows that they have been altered--and yet in the Clementines almost every peculiarity of the Matthaean version has been retained.
Another quotation which shows the delicacy of these verbal relations is that which corresponds to Matt.vi.32 (= Luke xii.
30):-- _Matt._ vi.

32.
[Greek: Oide gar ho pataer humon ho ouranios, hoti chraezete touton hapanton.] _Clem.

Hom._ iii.

55.
[Greek: [ephae] Oiden gar ho pataer humon ho ouranios hoti chraezete touton hapanton, prin auton axiosaete] (cp.Matt.

vi.
8).
_Luke_ xii.