of the Ethiopic omit them.

It is plainly unnecessary to strengthen such an opposition by researches in the pages of the Fathers.
Explanation has been already given, how the introductions to Lections, and other Liturgical formulae, have been added by insertion to the Text in various places.

Thus [Greek: ho Iesous] has often been inserted, and in some places remains wrongly (in the opinion of Dean Burgon) in the pages of the Received Text.

The three most important additions to the Received Text occur, as Dean Burgon thought, in St.Matt.vi.

18, where [Greek: en to phanero] has crept in from v.