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The precise extent to which the assimilating influence of the parallel place in St.Mark's Gospel has been felt by the copyists, I presume not to determine.

The essential point is that the omission from St.Matthew xv.

8 of the words [Greek: To stomati auton, kai], is certainly due in the first instance to the ascertained Septuagint omission of those very words in Isaiah xxix.

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But that the text of St.Mark vii.

6 has exercised an assimilating influence on the quotation from Isaiah is demonstrable.