The better to conceal St.John's purpose, the heresiarch falsified the inspired text.

In the place of, 'What was made in Him, was life,' he substituted 'What was made in Him, _is_ life.' Origen had seen copies so depraved, and judged the reading not altogether improbable.

Clement, on a single occasion, even adopted it.
It was the approved reading of the Old Latin versions,--a memorable indication, by the way, of a quarter from which the Old Latin derived their texts,--which explains why it is found in Cyprian, Hilary, and Augustine; and why Ambrose has so elaborately vindicated its sufficiency.

It also appears in the Sahidic and in Cureton's Syriac; but not in the Peshitto, nor in the Vulgate.

[Nor in the Bohairic] In the meantime, the only Greek Codexes which retain this singular trace of the Gnostic period at the present day, are Codexes [Symbol: Aleph] and D.
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