A clause, added in Hebrew fashion[354], which may perhaps appear to modern taste to be hardly wanted, must not therefore be taken to be a gloss.] Sometimes a 'various reading' is nothing else but a gratuitous gloss;--the unauthorized substitution of a common for an uncommon word.
This phenomenon is of frequent occurrence, but only in Codexes of a remarkable type like B[Symbol: Aleph]CD.

A few instances follow:-- 1.

The disciples on a certain occasion (St.Matt.xiii.

36), requested our Lord to 'explain' to them ([Greek: PHRASON hemin], 'they said') the parable of the tares.

So every known copy, except two: so, all the Fathers who quote the place,--viz.