14 [Greek: ous kai apostolous onomasen].
I do not propose (as will presently appear) in this way to explain any considerable number of the actual corruptions of the text: but in no other way is it possible to account for such systematic mutilations as are found in Cod.

B,--such monstrous additions as are found in Cod.
D,--such gross perturbations as are continually met with in one or more, but never in all, of the earliest Codexes extant, as well as in the oldest Versions and Fathers.
The plan of Tatian's Diatessaron will account for a great deal.

He indulges in frigid glosses, as when about the wine at the feast of Cana in Galilee he reads that the servants knew 'because they had drawn the water'; or in tasteless and stupid amplifications, as in the going back of the Centurion to his house.

I suspect that the [Greek: ti me erotas peri tou agathou], 'Why do you ask me about that which is good ?' is to be referred to some of these tamperers with the Divine Word.
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These professors of 'Gnosticism' held no consistent theory.