8; and we are prone to suspect that only by accident has it crept into the parallel narrative of the earlier Evangelist.
(_c_) In the same way I make no doubt that [Greek: potamo] (St.Matt.
iii.

6) is indebted for its place in [Symbol: Aleph]BC, &c., to the influence of the parallel place in St.Mark's Gospel (i.

5); and I am only astonished that critics should have been beguiled into adopting so clear a corruption of the text as part of the genuine Gospel.
(_d_) To be brief:--the insertion by [Symbol: Aleph] of [Greek: adelphe] (in St.Matt.vii.

4) is confessedly the result of the parallel passage in St.Luke vi.42.The same scribe may be thought to have written [Greek: to anemo] instead of [Greek: tois anemois] in St.Matt.

viii.
26, only because he was so familiar with [Greek: to anemo] in St.Luke viii.