But a few more instances are required, in order that the reader may see in this connexion that many passages at least which the opposing school designate as Interpolations are really genuine, and that students may be placed upon their guard against the source of error that we are discussing.] Sec.

4.
And first as to the rejection of an entire verse.
The 44th verse of St.Matt.xxi, consisting of the fifteen words printed at foot[265], is marked as doubtful by Tregelles, Westcott and Hort, and the Revisers:--by Tischendorf it is rejected as spurious.

We insist that, on the contrary, it is indubitably genuine; reasoning from the antiquity, the variety, the respectability, the largeness, or rather, the general unanimity of its attestation.
For the verse is found in the Old Latin, and in the Vulgate,--in the Peshitto, Curetonian, and Harkleian Syriac,--besides in the Coptic, Armenian, and Ethiopic versions.

It is found also in Origen[266],-- ps.-Tatian[267]--Aphraates[268],--Chrysostom[269],--Cyril Alex.[270],-- the Opus Imperfectum[271],--Jerome[272],--Augustine[273]:--in Codexes B[Symbol: Aleph]C[Symbol: Theta][Symbol: Sigma]XZ[Symbol: Delta][Symbol: Pi]EFG HKLMSUV,--in short, it is attested by every known Codex except two of bad character, viz .-- D, 33; together with five copies of the Old Latin, viz .-- a b e ff^{1} ff^{2}.

There have therefore been adduced for the verse in dispute at least five witnesses of the second or third century:--at least eight of the fourth:--at least seven if not eight of the fifth: after which date the testimony in favour of this verse is overwhelming.