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10), we are invited henceforth to read [Greek: par' oudeni tosauten pistin en to Israel euron];--a tame and tasteless gloss, witnessed to by only B, and five cursives,--but having no other effect, if it should chance to be inserted, than to mar and obscure the Divine utterance.
For when our Saviour declares 'Not even in Israel have I found so great faith,' He is clearly contrasting this proficiency of an earnest Gentile against whatever of a like nature He had experienced in His dealing with the Jewish people; and declaring the result.

He is contrasting Jacob's descendants, the heirs of so many lofty privileges, with this Gentile soldier: their spiritual attainments with his; and assigning the palm to him.

Substitute 'With no one in Israel have I found so great faith,' and the contrast disappears.

Nothing else is predicated but a greater measure of faith in one man than in any other.

The author of this feeble attempt to improve upon St.Matthew's Gospel is found to have also tried his hand on the parallel place in St.Luke, but with even inferior success: for there his misdirected efforts survive only in certain copies of the Old Latin.