13 [Endnote 74:2].

This theory of an interpolation is easily advanced, and it is drawn so entirely from our ignorance that it can seldom be positively disproved, but it ought surely to be alleged with more convincing reasons than any that are put forward here.

We now possess six MSS.

of the Epistle of Barnabas, including the famous Codex Sinaiticus, the accuracy of which in the Biblical portions can be amply tested, and all of these six MSS., without exception, contain the passage.

The addition of the words [Greek: eis metanoian] represents much more the kind of interpolations that were at all habitual.