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

CHAPTER IV
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The first of these three words could of course take care of itself.

(Though D, with some of the Versions, make it into [Greek: gynaikes].) Not so however what follows.

ABCDLX and the Old Latin (except c) drop the [Greek: kai]: [Symbol: Aleph] and C drop the [Greek: ai].

The truth rests with the fourteen remaining uncials and with the cursives.
Thus also the reading [Greek: en ole te Galilaia] (B) in St.Matt.

iv.
23, (adopted by Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Westcott and Hort and the Revisers,) is due simply to the reduplication on the part of some inattentive scribe of the last two letters of the immediately preceding word,--[Greek: periegen].


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