But when this has been done, men will begin to open their eyes to the fact that the little handful of documents recently so much in favour, are, on the contrary, the only surviving witnesses to corruptions of the Text which the Church in her corporate capacity has long since deliberately rejected.

But to proceed.
[From the Diatessaron of Tatian and similar attempts to harmonize the Gospels, corruption of a serious nature has ensued in some well-known places, such as the transference of the piercing of the Lord's side from St.John xix.

34 to St.Matt.xxvii.

49[181], and the omission of the words 'and of an honeycomb' ([Greek: kai apo tou melissiou keriou][182]).] Hence also, in Cureton's Syriac[183], the _patch-work_ supplement to St.
Matt.xxi.

9: viz.:--[Greek: polloi de] (St.Mark xi.