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The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

CHAPTER III
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16), that our Saviour's act was performed in this way.

It is clear however that some scribe has suffered his eye to wander from [Greek: tois] in l.

2 to [Greek: tois] in l.
4,--whereby St.John is made to say that our Saviour himself distributed to the 5000.

The blunder is a very ancient one; for it has crept into the Syriac, Bohairic, and Gothic versions, besides many copies of the Old Latin; and has established itself in the Vulgate.

Moreover some good Fathers (beginning with Origen) so quote the place.


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