The bulk of the Cursives faithfully maintain the former reading, and merge the article in the verb.
Akin to the foregoing are all those instances,--and they are literally without number--, where the proximity of a like ending has been the fruitful cause of error.

Let me explain: for this is a matter which cannot be too thoroughly apprehended.
Such a collection of words as the following two instances exhibit will shew my meaning.
In the expression [Greek: estheta lampran anepempsen] (St.Luke xxiii.
11), we are not surprised to find the first syllable of the verb ([Greek: an]) absorbed by the last syllable of the immediately preceding [Greek: lampran].

Accordingly, [Symbol: Aleph]LR supported by one copy of the Old Latin and a single cursive MS.

concur in displaying [Greek: epempsen] in this place.
The letters [Greek: NAIKONAIKAI] in the expression (St.Luke xxiii.

27) [Greek: gynaikon hai kai] were safe to produce confusion.