And because he has deservedly enjoyed a great reputation, it becomes the more necessary to set the reader on his guard against receiving such statements without a thorough examination of the evidence on which they rest.
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6.
The value--may I not say, the use ?--of these delicate differences of detail becomes apparent whenever the genuineness of the text is called in question.

Take an example.

The following fifteen words are deliberately excluded from St.Mark's Gospel (vi.

11) by some critics on the authority of [Symbol: Aleph]BCDL[Symbol: Delta],--a most suspicious company, and three cursives; besides a few copies of the Old Latin, including the Vulgate:--[Greek: amen lego hymin, anektoteron estai Sodomois e Gomorrois en hemerai kriseos, he te polei ekeine].