It is, of course, only as such that they are in point for the present enquiry.

Some few of those mentioned have been admitted into the text by certain modern editors.

Thus, on Matt.v.4, 5 Tertullian's reading finds support in Westcott and Hort: and M'Clellan, against Tischendorf and Tregelles.

[This instance perhaps should not be pressed.

I leave it standing, because it shows interesting relations between Tertullian and the various forms of the Old Latin.] The passage omitted in John v.