On the other hand, [Greek: kath' hemeran] enjoys the support of the two Egyptian Versions,--of the Gothic,--of the Armenian,--of the Ethiopic.

And this, in the present state of our knowledge, must be allowed to be a weighty piece of evidence in its favour.
But the case assumes an entirely different aspect the instant it is discovered that out of the cursive copies only eight are found to contain [Greek: kath hemeran] in St.Luke ix.

23[370].

How is it to be explained that nine manuscripts out of every ten in existence should have forgotten how to transmit such a remarkable message, had it ever been really so committed to writing by the Evangelist?
The omission (says Tischendorf) is explained by the parallel places[371].

Utterly incredible, I reply; as no one ought to have known better than Tischendorf himself.