B in St.Luke vi.

26, is retained by all the Editors: and the strange reading of Cod.

[Symbol: Aleph] in St.John vi.

55, omitting two lines, was corrected on the manuscript in the seventh century, and has met with no assent in modern times].
[Greek: EGAR] [Greek: SARXMOUALETHOS] [[Greek: ESTIBROSISKAI] [Greek: TOAIMAMOUALETHOS]] [Greek: ESTIPOSIS] But when, notwithstanding the omission of two or three words, the sense of the context remains unimpaired,--the clause being of independent signification,--then great danger arises lest an attempt should be made through the officiousness of modern Criticism to defraud the Church of a part of her inheritance.

Thus [[Greek: kai hoi syn auto] (St.Luke viii.
45) is omitted by Westcott and Hort, and is placed in the margin by the Revisers and included in brackets by Tregelles as if the words were of doubtful authority, solely because some scribe omitted a line and was followed by B, a few cursives, the Sahidic, Curetonian, Lewis, and Jerusalem Versions].
When indeed the omission dates from an exceedingly remote period; took place, I mean, in the third, or more likely still in the second century; then the fate of such omitted words may be predicted with certainty.
Their doom is sealed.