[For the great number and variety of them necessitates their having been derived through various lines of descent.

Indeed, they must have the notes of number, variety, as well as continuity, and weight also.] Sec.

3.
On countless occasions doubtless, it is very difficult--perhaps impossible--to determine, apart from external evidence, which collocation of two or more words is the true one, whether e.g.

[Greek: echei zoen] for instance or [Greek: zoen echei][341],--[Greek: egerthe eutheos] or [Greek: eutheos egerthe][342],--[Greek: cholous, typhlous]--or [Greek: typhlous, cholous][343],--shall be preferred.

The burden of proof rests evidently with innovators on Traditional use.
Obvious at the same time is it to foresee that if a man sits down before the Gospel with the deliberate intention of improving the style of the Evangelists by transposing their words on an average of seven (B), eight ([Symbol: Aleph]), or twelve (D) times in every page, he is safe to convict himself of folly in repeated instances, long before he has reached the end of his task.