Every copy made from that defective original of necessity reproduced the defects of its prototype: and if (as often happens) some of those copies have descended to our times, they become quoted henceforward as if they were independent witnesses[335].

Nor is this all.

Let the taint have been communicated to certain copies of the Old Latin, and we find ourselves confronted with formidable because very venerable foes.

And according to the recently approved method of editing the New Testament, the clause is allowed no quarter.

It is declared without hesitation to be a spurious accretion to the Text.