So indeed all the ancient versions except the Egyptian.Cod.D alone adds [Greek: einai]: but [Greek: einai] must once have been a familiar gloss: for Jerome retains it in the Vulgate: and indeed Cyril, whenever he quotes the place[402], exhibits [Greek: ton Christon einai].

Not so however Chrysostom[403] and Gregory of Nyssa[404].
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6.
There is scarcely to be found, amid the incidents immediately preceding our Saviour's Passion, one more affecting or more exquisite than the anointing of His feet at Bethany by Mary the sister of Lazarus, which received its unexpected interpretation from the lips of Christ Himself.
'Let her alone.

Against the day of My embalming hath she kept it.' (St.
John xii.

7.) He assigns to her act a mysterious meaning of which the holy woman little dreamt.