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The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

CHAPTER XII
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[Greek: Sodomois e Gomorrois], in St.Mark: [Greek: ge Sodomon kai Gomorron], in St.Matt.It is simply incredible that this could have been done if the received text in this place had been of spurious origin.
Sec.

5.
The word [Greek: apechei] in St.Mark xiv.

41 has proved a stumbling-block.

The most obvious explanation is probably the truest.
After a brief pause[397], during which the Saviour has been content to survey in silence His sleeping disciples;--or perhaps, after telling them that they will have time and opportunity enough for sleep and rest when He shall have been taken from them;--He announces the arrival of 'the hour,' by exclaiming, [Greek: Apechei],--'It is enough;' or, 'It is sufficient;' i.e._The season for repose is over._ But the 'Revisers' of the second century did not perceive that [Greek: apechei] is here used impersonally[398].

They understood the word to mean 'is fully come'; and supplied the supposed nominative, viz.


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