It is remarkable that efforts at interpolation occur most copiously amongst the books of those who are least fitted to make them.

We naturally look amongst the representatives of the Western school where Greek was less understood than in the East where Greek acumen was imperfectly represented by Latin activity, and where translation into Latin and retranslation into Greek was a prolific cause of corruption.

Take then the following passage from the Codex D (St.Luke vi.

4):-- 'On the same day He beheld a certain man working on the sabbath, and said to him, "Man, blessed art thou if thou knowest what thou doest; but if thou knowest not, thou art cursed and a transgressor of the law."' And another from the Curetonian Syriac (St.Matt.xx.

28), which occurs under a worse form in D.
'But seek ye from little to become greater, and not from greater to become less.