2, 3, and St.Mark xvi.

5),--it stands alone in reading [Greek: EN to mnemeio].

(C and D are lost here.) When will men learn that these 'old uncials' are _ignes fatui_,--not beacon lights; and admit that the texts which they exhibit are not only inconsistent but corrupt?
There is no reason for distrusting the received reading of the present place in any particular.

True, that most of the uncials and many of the cursives read [Greek: pros to mnemeio]: but so did neither Chrysostom[177] nor Cyril[178] read the place.

And if the Evangelist himself had so written, is it credible that a majority of the copies would have forsaken the easier and more obvious, in order to exhibit the less usual and even slightly difficult expression?
Many, by writing [Greek: pros to mnemeio], betray themselves; for they retain a sure token that the accusative ought to end the sentence.