The proof is that four of the same Latin copies which are for the omission of [Greek: kai tines syn autais] are observed to begin St.Luke xxiii.

55 as follows,--[Greek: katakolouthesasai de DUO gynaikes].

The same fabricated reading is found in D.It exists also in the Codex which Eusebius employed when he wrote his Demonstratio Evangelica.

Instead therefore of wearying the reader with the evidence, which is simply overwhelming, for letting the text alone, I shall content myself with inviting him to notice that the tables have been unexpectedly turned on our opponents.

There is indeed found to have been a corruption of the text hereabouts, and of the words just now under discussion; but it belongs to an exceedingly remote age; and happily the record of it survives at this day only in [Symbol: Aleph]BCDL and certain of the Old Latin copies.