Thus [Symbol: Aleph] testifies to the existence of a short additional clause ([Greek: kai polloi ekolouthesan auto]) at the end, as some critics say, of the same 35th verse.

Are we not rather to regard the words as the beginning of ver.

36, and as being nothing else but the liturgical introduction to the lection for the Twelve Apostles, which follows (ix.
36-x.

8), and whose Festival falls on the 30th June?
Whatever its origin, this confessedly spurious accretion to the Text, which exists besides only in L and six cursive copies, must needs be of extraordinary antiquity, being found in the two oldest copies of the Old Latin:--a sufficient indication, by the way, of the utter insufficiency of such an amount of evidence for the genuineness of any reading.
This is the reason why, in certain of the oldest documents accessible, such a strange amount of discrepancy is discoverable in the text of the first words of St.Luke x.

25 ([Greek: kai idou nomikos tis aneste, ekpeirazon aiton, kai legon]).