7/16 was omitted in an early age, owing to the recurrence of [Greek: ouai hymin] at the beginning, by some copyists, and the error was repeated in the Old Latin versions. It passed to Egypt, as some of the Bohairic copies, the Sahidic, and Origen testify. The Vulgate is not quite consistent: and of course [Symbol: Aleph]BDLZ, a concord of bad witnesses especially in St.Matthew, follow suit, in company with the Armenian, the Lewis, and five or more cursives, enough to make the more emphatic the condemnation by the main body of them. Besides the verdict of the cursives, thirteen uncials (as against five) including [Symbol: Phi] and [Symbol: Sigma], the Peshitto, Harkleian, Ethiopic, Arabian, some MSS. |