6, 41, 42, &c.), and thus the door had been opened to at least four distinct deflections from the evangelical verity,--which straightway found their way into manuscripts:--( 1) [Greek: o dedokos ...

meizon]--of which reading at this day D is the sole representative: (2) [Greek: os dedoke ...

meizon]--which survives only in AX: (3) [Greek: o dedoke ...
meizon]--which is only found in [Symbol: Aleph]L: (4) [Greek: o dedoke ...

meizon]--which is the peculiar property of B.The 1st and 2nd of these sufficiently represent the Evangelist's meaning, though neither of them is what he actually wrote; but the 3rd is untranslatable: while the 4th is nothing else but a desperate attempt to force a meaning into the 3rd, by writing [Greek: meizon] for [Greek: meizon]; treating [Greek: o] not as the article but as the neuter of the relative [Greek: os].
This last exhibition of the text, which in fact scarcely yields an intelligible meaning and rests upon the minimum of manuscript evidence, would long since have been forgotten, but that, calamitously for the Western Church, its Version of the New Testament Scriptures was executed from MSS.

of the same vicious type as Cod.