3), professing to quote the place in the prophet Isaiah, exhibits it thus,--[Greek: Ho laos outos tois cheilesi me tima].

Clemens Alexandrinus certainly does the same thing on at least two occasions[290].

So does Chrysostom[291].

So does Theodoret[292].
Two facts have thus emerged, which entirely change the aspect of the problem: the first, (_a_) That the words [Greek: en to stomati auton, kai en] were anciently absent from the Septuagintal rendering of Isaiah xxix.

13: the second, (_b_) that the place of Isaiah was freely quoted by the ancients without the initial words [Greek: engizei moi].
And after this discovery will any one be so perverse as to deny that on the contrary it must needs be Codexes B and [Symbol: Aleph], and not the great bulk of the MSS., which exhibit a text corrupted by the influence of the Septuagint rendering of Isaiah xxix.