Hence the peculiar form which the sentence assumes[479]:--[Greek: ginosko ta ema, kai ginoskomai hypo ton emon].
And this delicate diversity of phrase has been faithfully retained all down the ages, being witnessed to at this hour by every MS.

in existence except four now well known to us: viz.

[Symbol: Aleph]BDL.

The Syriac also retains it,--as does Macarius[480], Gregory Naz.[481], Chrysostom[482], Cyril[483], Theodoret[484], Maximus[485].

It is a point which really admits of no rational doubt: for does any one suppose that if St.John had written 'Mine own know Me,' 996 MSS.