The witness of antiquity on this head is thus overwhelming and decisive.
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4.
In other cases the source, the very progress of a blunder,--is discoverable.

Thus whereas St.Mark (in xv.

6) certainly wrote [Greek: hena desmion], [Greek: ONPER etounto], the scribe of [Symbol: Delta], who evidently derived his text from an earlier copy in uncial letters is found to have divided the Evangelist's syllables wrongly, and to exhibit in this place [Greek: ON.PERETOUNTO].

The consequence might have been predicted.