There are a certain number of quotations, introduced as such, which can be assigned directly to no Old Testament original; Matt.ii.23 ([Greek: Nazoraios klaethaesetai]), 1 Tim.v.18 ('the labourer is worthy of his hire'), John vii.

38 ('out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water'), 42 (Christ should be born of Bethlehem where David was), Eph.v.

14 ('Awake thou that sleepest').

[Endnote 25:1] It will be seen that, in spite of the reservations that we felt compelled to make at the outset, the greater number of the deviations noticed above can only be explained on a theory of free quotation, and remembering the extent to which the Jews relied upon memory and the mechanical difficulties of exact reference and verification, this is just what before the fact we should have expected.
* * * * * The Old Testament quotations in the canonical books afford us a certain parallel to the object of our enquiry, but one still nearer will of course be presented by the Old Testament quotations in those books the New Testament quotations in which we are to investigate.

I have thought it best to draw up tables of these in order to give an idea of the extent and character of the variation.