18) is clearly untenable.
Either place has its distinctive type, which either has maintained all down the ages.

The single fact that St.Matt.xxi.

44 in the Peshitto version has a sectional number to itself[284] is far too weighty to be set aside on nothing better than suspicion.

If a verse so elaborately attested as the present be not genuine, we must abandon all hope of ever attaining to any certainty concerning the Text of Scripture.
In the meantime there emerges from the treatment which St.Matt.xxi.

44 has experienced at the hands of Tischendorf, the discovery that, in the estimation of Tischendorf, Cod.