[And the error must have arisen from carelessness and ignorance, probably in the West where Greek was not properly understood.] So again, in the cry of the demoniacs, [Greek: ti hemin kai soi, Iesou, huie tou Theou]; (St.Matt.viii.

29) the name [Greek: Iesou] is omitted by B[Symbol: Aleph].
The reason is plain the instant an ancient MS.

is inspected:--[Greek: KAISOI_IU_UIETOU_THU_]:--the recurrence of the same letters caused too great a strain to scribes, and the omission of two of them was the result of ordinary human infirmity.
Indeed, to this same source are to be attributed an extraordinary number of so-called 'various readings'; but which in reality, as has already been shewn, are nothing else but a collection of mistakes,--the surviving tokens that anciently, as now, copying clerks left out words; whether misled by the fatal proximity of a like ending, or by the speedy recurrence of the like letters, or by some other phenomenon with which most men's acquaintance with books have long since made them familiar.
FOOTNOTES: [96] St.Mark xi.4.See Revision Revised, pp.

57-58.
[97] St.Mark vii.

19, [Greek: katharizon] for [Greek: katharizon].