55, cf.viii.

2).

In anticipation therefore of what he will have to relate in ver.

10, he says in ver.

1, 'and certain with them.' But how, I shall be asked, would you explain the omission of these words which to yourself seem necessary?
And after insisting that one is never bound to explain how the text of any particular passage came to be corrupted, I answer, that these words were originally ejected from the text in order to bring St.Luke's statement into harmony with that of the first Evangelist, who mentions none but Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joses.