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

CHAPTER III
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Let the reader judge for himself.
The passage stands thus:--[Greek: he gar sarx mou alethos esti brosis, kai to haima mou alethos esti posis].

The transcriber of [Symbol: Aleph] by a very easy mistake let his eye pass from one [Greek: alethos] to another, and characteristically enough the various correctors allowed the error to remain till it was removed in the seventh century, though the error issued in nothing less than 'My Flesh is drink indeed.' Could that MS.

have undergone the test of frequent use ?] But it requires very little familiarity with the subject to be aware that occasions must inevitably be even of frequent occurrence when the result is calamitous, and even perplexing, in the extreme.

The writings of Apostles and Evangelists, the Discourses of our Divine Lord Himself, abound in short formulae; and the intervening matter on such occasions is constantly an integral sentence, which occasionally may be discovered from its context without evident injury to the general meaning of the place.

Thus [ver.


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