But I have shewn that this is impossible; because, at the time spoken of, the words in question had no place in the Greek text of the prophet.

And this discovery exactly reverses the problem, and brings out the directly opposite result.

For now we discover that we have rather to inquire how is the absence of the words in question from those few MSS.

out of the mass to be accounted for?
The two oldest Codexes are convicted of exhibiting a text which has been corrupted by the influence of the oldest Septuagint reading of Isaiah xxix.

13.
I freely admit that it is in a high degree remarkable that five ancient Versions, and all the following early writers,--Ptolemaeus[295], Clemens Alexandrinus[296], Origen[297], Didymus[298], Cyril[299], Chrysostom[300], and possibly three others of like antiquity[301],--should all quote St.
Matthew in this place from a faulty text.