Antiochus[408] is express.

[A and eleven other uncials, and the cursives (with the petty exception already noted), together with the Peshitto, Harkleian (which only notes the other reading in the margin), Lewis, Sahidic, and Gothic versions, form a body of authority against the palpable emasculation of the passage, which for number, variety, weight, and internal evidence is greatly superior to the opposing body.

Also, with reference to continuity and antiquity it preponderates plainly, if not so decisively; and the context of D is full of blunders, besides that it omits the next verse, and B and [Symbol: Aleph] are also inaccurate hereabouts[409].

So that the Traditional text enjoys in this passage the support of all the Notes of Truth.] In accordance with what has been said above, for [Greek: Aphes auten; eis ten hemeran tou entaphiasmou mou tetereken auto] (St.John xii.

7), the copies which it has recently become the fashion to adore, read [Greek: aphes auten hina ...