They are condemned under the note of Context.

Adverse testimony is borne by B and [Symbol: Aleph]: and by them only.

They omit the words in dispute,--the ordinary habit of theirs, and most easily accounted for.

But how is the punctual insertion of the words in every other known copy to be explained?
In the meantime, it remains to be stated,--and with this I shall take leave of the discussion,--that hereabouts 'we have a set of passages which bear clear marks of wilful and critical correction, thoroughly carried out in Cod.
[Symbol: Aleph], and only partially in Cod.

B and some of its compeers; the object being so far to assimilate the narrative of Peter's denials with those of the other Evangelists, as to suppress the fact, vouched for by St.Mark only, that the cock crowed twice[227].' _That_ incident shall be treated of separately.