of the Gospels in existence.

That advantage however shrinks into nothing under the light of rigid examination.

The claim for the Text in them made at the Semiarian period was rejected when Semiarianism in all its phases fell into permanent disfavour.

And the argument advanced by Dr.Hort that the Traditional Text was a new Text formed by successive recensions has been refuted upon examination of the verdict of the Fathers in the first four centuries, and of the early Syriac and Latin Versions.

Besides all this, those two manuscripts have been traced to a local source in the library of Caesarea.