B and C: and their character is already known by the readers of this book and the Companion Volume.

So much has been elsewhere offered on this subject that I shall say no more about it here: but proceed to present my reader with another and more famous instance of attraction.
St.Paul in a certain place (2 Cor.iii.

3) tells the Corinthians, in allusion to the language of Exodus xxxi.

12, xxxiv.

1, that they are an epistle not written on '_stony tables_ ([Greek: en plaxi lithinais]),' but on '_fleshy tables_ of the heart ([Greek: en plaxi kardias sarkinais]).' The one proper proof that this is what St.Paul actually wrote, is not only (1) That the Copies largely preponderate in favour of so exhibiting the place: but (2) That the Versions, with the single exception of 'that abject slave of manuscripts the Philoxenian [or Harkleian] Syriac,' are all on the same side: and lastly (3) That the Fathers are as nearly as possible unanimous.