Their presence in the meantime is fully accounted for by the adjacent rubrical direction how the lesson is to be introduced: viz.

'At that time Jesus having called together His twelve Disciples.' Accordingly we are not surprised to find the words [Greek: ho Iesous] also thrust into a few of the MSS.: though we are hardly prepared to discover that the words of the Peshitto, besides the Latin and Cureton's Syriac, are disfigured in the same way.

The admirers of 'the old uncials' will learn with interest that, instead of [Greek: mathetas autou], [Symbol: Aleph]C with LX[Symbol: Lambda][Symbol: Xi] and a choice assortment of cursives exhibit [Greek: apostolous],--being supported in this manifestly spurious reading by the best copies of the Old Latin, the Vulgate, Gothic, Harkleian, Bohairic, and a few other translations.
Indeed, it is surprising what a fertile source of corruption Liturgical usage has proved.

Every careful student of the Gospels remembers that St.Matthew describes our Lord's first and second missionary journey in very nearly the same words.

The former place (iv.