16/42 There is nevertheless a vast preponderance of numbers in favour of the usual reading, which is also found in the Old Latin copies and in the Vulgate. But surely the discovery that in the parallel Gospels it is-- [Greek: hoitines legousin anastasin me einai] (St.Mark xii. 18) and [Greek: hoi antilegontes anastasin me einai] (St.Luke xx. 27) may be considered as decisive in a case like the present. Sure I am that it will be so regarded by any one who has paid close attention to the method of the Evangelists. |