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Recent Editors are agreed that we are henceforth to read in St.John xviii.

14 [Greek: apothanein] instead of [Greek: apolesthai]:--'Now Caiaphas was he who counselled the Jews that it was expedient that one man should _die_' (instead of '_perish_') 'for the people.' There is certainly a considerable amount of ancient testimony in favour of this reading: for besides [Symbol: Aleph]BC, it is found in the Old Latin copies, the Egyptian, and Peshitto versions, besides the Lewis MS., the Chronicon, Cyril, Nonnus, Chrysostom.

Yet may it be regarded as certain that St.John wrote [Greek: apolesthai] in this place.

The proper proof of the statement is the consentient voice of all the copies,--except about nineteen of loose character:--we know their vagaries but too well, and decline to let them impose upon us.

In real fact, nothing else is [Greek: apothanein] but a critical assimilation of St.John xviii.