The only decided element of judgement, so far as present enquiries have reached, since suspicion is always aroused by the conjunction of [Symbol: Aleph]AB, is supplied by the cursives which with a large majority witness to the received reading.

It is not therefore safe to alter it till a much larger examination of existing evidence is made than is now possible.

If difficulty is felt in the meaning given by [Greek: katharizon],--and that there is such difficulty cannot candidly be denied,--this is balanced by the grammatical difficulty introduced by [Greek: katharizon], which would be made to agree in the same clause with a verb separated from it by thirty-five parenthetic words, including two interrogations and the closing sentence.

Those people who form their judgement from the Revised Version should bear in mind that the Revisers, in order to make intelligible sense, were obliged to introduce three fresh English words that have nothing to correspond to them in the Greek; being a repetition of what the mind of the reader would hardly bear in memory.

Let any reader who doubts this leave out the words in italics and try the effect for himself.