Shall we wonder more at the badness of the Codexes to which we are just now invited to pin our faith; or at the infatuation of our guides?
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I do not find that sufficient attention has been paid to grave disturbances of the Text which have resulted from a slight clerical error.

While we are enumerating the various causes of Textual depravity, we may not fail to specify this.

Once trace a serious Textual disturbance back to (what for convenience may be called) a 'clerical error,' and you are supplied with an effectual answer to a form of inquiry which else is sometimes very perplexing: viz.

If the true meaning of this passage be what you suppose, for what conceivable reason should the scribe have misrepresented it in this strange way,--made nonsense, in short, of the place ?...