The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
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Conspirein omitting them. But, I reply, the latter circumstance does not conductto the inference that those verses are spurious. It only proves that thestatement of Eusebius was correct. The Father cited did not, as isevident from his words[259], himself doubt the genuineness of the versesin question; but admitted them to be genuine. [He quotes twoopinions;--the opinion of an advocate who questions their genuineness, and an opposing opinion which he evidently considers the better of thetwo, sin...ce he rests upon the latter and casts a slur upon the former asbeing an off-hand expedient; besides that he quotes several words out ofthe twelve verses, and argues at great length upon the secondhypothesis. On the other hand, one and that the least faulty of the two MSS. Witnessing for the omission confesses mutely its error by leaving avacant space where the omitted verses should have come in; whilst theother was apparently copied from an exemplar containing the verses[260]. And all the other copies insert them, except L and a few cursives whichpropose a manifestly spurious substitute for the verses, --together withall the versions, except one Old Latin (k), the Lewis Codex, twoArmenian MSS.
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