Take, as an instance of this, the following passage in St.Luke xii.39.

'If' (says our Lord) 'the master of the house had known in what hour [Greek: OKLEPTES] [Greek: ERCHETAI] [[Greek: EGREGOR] [Greek: ESENKAI]] [Greek: OUKANA] [Greek: PHEKEN] his house to be broken through.' Here, the clause within brackets, which has fallen out for an obvious reason, does not appear in Codd.

[Symbol: Aleph] and D.But the omission did not begin with [Symbol: Aleph].

Two copies of the Old Latin are also without the words [Greek: egregoresen kai],--which are wanting besides in Cureton's Syriac.

Tischendorf accordingly omits them.