3.
The force of what I am saying will be best understood if a few actual specimens of omission may be adduced, and individually considered.

And first, let us take the case of an omitted word.

In St.Luke vi.

1 [Greek: deuteroproto] is omitted from some MSS.

Westcott and Hort and the Revisers accordingly exhibit the text of that place as follows:--[Greek: Egeneto de en sabbato diaporeuesthai auton dia sporimon].
Now I desire to be informed how it is credible that so very difficult and peculiar a word as this,--for indeed the expression has never yet been satisfactorily explained,--should have found its way into every known Evangelium except [Symbol: Aleph]BL and a few cursives, if it be spurious?
How it came to be here and there omitted, is intelligible enough.