Omission, Transposition, Substitution, and Addition.

We are entirely aware that, in the arrangement adopted in this Volume for purposes of convenience, Scientific Method has been neglected.

The inevitable result must be that passages are capable of being classed under more heads than one.

But Logical exactness is of less practical value than a complete and suitable treatment of the corrupted passages that actually occur in the four Gospels.
It seems therefore needless to supply with a scrupulousness that might bore our readers a disquisition upon Substitution which has not forced itself into a place amongst Dean Burgon's papers, although it is found in a fragmentary plan of this part of the treatise.

Substituted forms or words or phrases, such as [Greek: OS] ([Greek: hos]) for [Greek: THS] ([Greek: Theos])[346] [Greek: eporei] for [Greek: epoiei] (St.Mark vi.
20), or [Greek: ouk oidate dokimazein] for [Greek: dokimazete] (St.Luke xii.