Can those principles stand, which in the face of the foregoing statement, and the evidence which preceded it, justify the disturbance of the text in St.Mark xiv.

70?
[We now pass on to a kindred cause of adulteration of the text of the New Testament.] FOOTNOTES: [184] This paper bears the date 1877: but I have thought best to keep the words with this caution to the reader.
[185] Above, p.

32.
[186] The alleged evidence of Origen (iv.

453) is _nil_; the sum of it being that he takes no notice whatever of the forty words between [Greek: opsesthe me] (in ver.

16), and [Greek: touto ti estin] (in ver.
18).
[187] Nonnus,--[Greek: hixomai eis gennetera].
[188] viii.