The phenomena of variation seem to be too persistent and too evenly distributed to allow of the supposition of alternate quoting from different Gospels.

But the data will need a closer weighing before this can be determined.
[138:1] _Contemporary Review_, 1875, p.

169 sqq.
[138:2] Tischendorf, however, devotes several pages to an argument which follows in the same line as Dr.Lightfoot's, and is, I believe, in the main sound (_Wann wurden unsere Evangelien verfasst ?_ p.

113 sqq., 4th edition, 1866).
[138:3] I gather from the sixth edition of _S.

R._ that the argument from silence is practically waived.