27[374].

All this is in a high degree unsatisfactory.

We suspect that we ourselves enjoy some slight familiarity with the 'antiqua exemplaria' referred to by the Critic; and we freely avow that we have learned to reckon them among the least reputable of our acquaintance.

Are they not represented by those Evangelia, of which several copies are extant, that profess to have been 'transcribed from, and collated with, ancient copies at Jerusalem'?
These uniformly exhibit [Greek: kath hemeran] in St.Luke ix.

23[375].
But then, if the phrase be a gloss,--it is obvious to inquire,--how is its existence in so many quarters to be accounted for?
Its origin is not far to seek.