If it can be improved upon, so much the better.

Candid critics ought to study Dean Burgon's elaborate chapter already referred to before rejecting it.] Sec.

3.
And there probably does not exist, in the whole compass of the Gospel, a more interesting instance of this than is furnished by the words [Greek: eipe de ho Kyrios], in St.Luke vii.31.This is certainly derived from the Lectionaries; being nothing else but the formula with which it was customary to introduce the lection that begins at this place.
Accordingly, only one out of forty copies which have been consulted for the purpose contains them.

But the circumstance of interest remains to be stated.

When these four unauthorized words have been thus got rid of, the important discovery is made that the two preceding verses (verses 28 and 29) must needs form a part of our Lord's discourse,--which it is perceived flows on unbroken from v.