CHAPTER II.
ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION.
I.Pure Accident.
[It often happens that more causes than one are combined in the origin of the corruption in any one passage.

In the following history of a blunder and of the fatal consequences that ensued upon it, only the first step was accidental.

But much instruction may be derived from the initial blunder, and though the later stages in the history come under another head, they nevertheless illustrate the effects of early accident, besides throwing light upon parts of the discussion which are yet to come.] Sec.

1.
We are sometimes able to trace the origin and progress of accidental depravations of the text: and the study is as instructive as it is interesting.

Let me invite attention to what is found in St.John x.