Next, for the testimony of the Uncial Codexes [Symbol: Aleph]BDL[Symbol: Delta]:--If any one will be at the pains to tabulate the 900[216] new 'readings' adopted by Tischendorf in editing St.Mark's Gospel, he will discover that for 450, or just half of them,--all the 450, as I believe, being corruptions of the text,--[Symbol: Aleph]BL are responsible: and further, that their responsibility is shared on about 200 occasions by D: on about 265 by C: on about 350 by [Delta][217].

At some very remote period therefore there must have grown up a vicious general reading of this Gospel which remains in the few bad copies: but of which the largest traces (and very discreditable traces they are) at present survive in [Symbol: Aleph]BCDL[Symbol: Delta].

After this discovery the avowal will not be thought extraordinary that I regard with unmingled suspicion readings which are exclusively vouched for by five of the same Codexes: e.g.by [Symbol: Aleph]BDL[Symbol: Delta].
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The cursive copies which exhibit 'Isaiah' in place of 'the prophet.' reckoned by Tischendorf at 'nearly twenty-five,' are probably less than fifteen[218], and those, almost all of suspicious character.

High time it is that the inevitable consequence of an appeal to such evidence were better understood.
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