CHAPTER III.
ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION.
II.

Homoeoteleuton.
No one who finds the syllable [Greek: OI] recurring six times over in about as many words,--e.g.

[Greek: kai egeneto, hos apelthon ...

OI angelOI, kai OI anthropOI OI pOImenes eipon],--is surprised to learn that MSS.

of a certain type exhibit serious perturbation in that place.
Accordingly, BL[Symbol: Xi] leave out the words [Greek: kai hoi anthropoi]; and in that mutilated form the modern critical editors are contented to exhibit St.Luke ii.15.One would have supposed that Tischendorf's eyes would have been opened when he noticed that in his own Codex ([Symbol: Aleph]) one word more ([Greek: hoi]) is dropped,--whereby nonsense is made of the passage (viz.