This self-evident fabrication, 'if it be not a part of the original Aramaic of St.Matthew,' remarks Dr.Cureton, 'would appear to have been supplied from the parallel passages of Luke and John conjointly.' How is it that even a sense of humour did not preserve that eminent scholar from hazarding the conjecture, that such a self-evident deflection of his corrupt Syriac Codex from the course all but universally pursued is a recovery of one more genuine utterance of the Holy Ghost?
FOOTNOTES: [173] [Greek: Maria de heistekei pros to mnemeion klaiousa exo] (St.
John xx.

11).

Comp.

the expression [Greek: pros to phos] in St.Luke xxii.56.Note, that the above is not offered as a revised translation; but only to shew unlearned readers what the words of the original exactly mean.
[174] Note, that in the sectional system of Eusebius _according to the Greek_, the following places are brought together:-- (St.Matt.

xxviii) (St.Mark xvi) (St.Luke xxiv) (St.John xx) 1-4.