But the indirect proof thus afforded that the actual Lectionary System must needs date from a period long anterior to our oldest Codexes is a far more important as well as a more interesting inference.

In the meantime I suspect that it was in Western Christendom that this corruption of the text had its beginning: for proof is not wanting that the expression [Greek: epi to auto] seemed hard to the Latins[166].
Hence too the omission of [Greek: palin] from [Symbol: Aleph]BD (St.
Matt, xiii.

43).

A glance at the place in an actual Codex[167] will explain the matter to a novice better than a whole page of writing:-- [Greek: akoueto.

telos] [Greek: palin.arche.eipen o Kurios ten parabolen tauten.] [Greek: Omoia estin k.t.l.] The word [Greek: palin], because it stands between the end ([Greek: telos]) of the lesson for the sixth Thursday and the beginning ([Greek: arche]) of the first Friday after Pentecost, got left out [though every one acquainted with Gospel MSS.