And yet, who sees not that such an amount of evidence as this is wholly insufficient to warrant the ejection of the clause as spurious?
What is the 'Science' worth which cannot preserve to the body a healthy limb like this?
[The instances of omission which have now been examined at some length must by no means be regarded as the only specimens of this class of corrupt passages[336].

Many more will occur to the minds of the readers of the present volume and of the earlier volume of this work.

In fact, omissions are much more common than Additions, or Transpositions, or Substitutions: and this fact, that omissions, or what seem to be omissions, are apparently so common,--to say nothing of the very strong evidence wherewith they are attested--when taken in conjunction with the natural tendency of copyists to omit words and passages, cannot but confirm the general soundness of the position.

How indeed can it possibly be more true to the infirmities of copyists, to the verdict of evidence on the several passages, and to the origin of the New Testament in the infancy of the Church and amidst associations which were not literary, to suppose that a terse production was first produced and afterwards was amplified in a later age with a view to 'lucidity and completeness[337],' rather than that words and clauses and sentences were omitted upon definitely understood principles in a small class of documents by careless or ignorant or prejudiced scribes?
The reply to this question must now be left for candid and thoughtful students to determine.] FOOTNOTES: [258] It will be observed that these are empirical, not logical, classes.

Omissions are found in many of the rest.
[259] Last Twelve Verses of St.Mark's Gospel, chapter v.