I do not wish to impute blame to him for this, because we are all sure to take up some points superficially; but the misfortune is that he has spent his labour in the wrong place.

He has, in a manner, revived the old ecclesiastical argument from authority by heaping together references, not always quite digested and sifted, upon points that often do not need them, and he has neglected that consecutive study of the originals which alone could imbue his mind with their spirit and place him at the proper point of view for his enquiry.
The hypothesis that Clement's quotation is made _memoriter_ from our Gospel is very far from being inadmissible.

Were it not that the other passage seems to lean the other way, I should be inclined to regard it as quite the most probable solution.

Such a fusion is precisely what _would_ and frequently _does_ take place in quoting from memory.

It is important to notice the key phrases in the quotation.