But what is more serious, passages which occasioned some difficulty, as the _pericope de adultera_; physical perplexity, as the troubling of the water; spiritual revulsion, as the agony in the garden:--all these the reviser or revisers seem to have judged it safest simply to eliminate.

It is difficult to understand how any persons in their senses could have so acted by the sacred deposit; but it does not seem improbable that at some very remote period there were found some who did act in some such way.

Let it be observed, however, that unlike some critics I do not base my real argument upon what appears to me to be a not unlikely supposition.
[17] [Unless it be referred to the two converging streams of corruption, as described in The Traditional Text.].