a lasting record of his rashness and incompetency.

Since however he left behind the words [Greek: mede akousosin hymon], which immediately follow, who sees not that the fabricator has betrayed himself?
I am astonished that so patent a fraud should have imposed upon Tischendorf, and Tregelles, and Lachmann, and Alford, and Westcott and Hort.

But in fact it does not stand alone.

From the same copies [Symbol: Aleph]BL[Symbol: Delta] (with two others, CD) we find the woe denounced in the same verse on the unbelieving city erased ([Greek: amen lego hymin, anektoteron estai Sodomois e Gomorrois en hemerai kriseos, e te polei ekeine]).

Quite idle is it to pretend (with Tischendorf) that these words are an importation from the parallel place in St.Matthew.A memorable note of diversity has been set on the two places, which in _all_ the copies is religiously maintained, viz.