[Greek: z] (i.e.iii.

3-6).
St.John.

[Greek: i] (i.e.i.

23)[224].
Now, since the name of Isaiah occurs in the first, the third and the fourth of these places in connexion with the quotation from Is.xl.

3, _what_ more obvious than that some critic with harmonistic proclivities should have insisted on supplying _the second also_, i.e.the parallel place in St.Mark's Gospel, with the name of the evangelical prophet, elsewhere so familiarly connected with the passage quoted?
This is nothing else in short but an ordinary instance of Assimilation, so unskilfully effected however as to betray itself.