The words [Greek: ek sou], will be noticed, are enclosed in brackets in the text of St.Luke as given above.

They are a corruption, though an early and well-supported corruption, of the original.

The authorities in their favour are C (first hand), the good cursives 1 and 33, one form of the Vulgate, a, c, e, m of the Old Latin, the Peshito Syriac, the Armenian and Aethiopic versions, Irenaeus, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Tertullian, Cyprian, and Epiphanius.

On the other hand, for the omission are A.B, C (third hand), D, [Hebrew: Aleph symbol], and the rest of the uncials and cursives, another form of the Vulgate, b, f, ff, g'2, l of the Old Latin, the Harclean and Jerusalem Syriac, the Memphitic, Gothic, and some MSS.

of the Armenian versions, Origen, Dionysius and Peter of Alexandria, and Eusebius.