I suspect that Origen is the author (see the heading of the Scholion in Cramer's Catenae) of a certain uncritical note which Eusebius reproduces in his 'quaestiones ad Stephanum[494]' on the difference between [Greek: deigmatisai] and [Greek: paradeigmatisai]; and that with him originated the substitution of the uncompounded for the compounded verb in this place.

Be that as it may, Eusebius certainly read [Greek: paradeigmatisai] (Dem.

320), with all the uncials but two (BZ): all the cursives but one (I).

Will it be believed that Lachmann, Tregelles, Tischendorf, Alford, Westcott and Hort, on such slender evidence as that are prepared to reconstruct the text of St.Matthew's Gospel?
It sounds so like trifling with a reader's patience to invite his attention to an elaborate discussion of most of the changes introduced into the text by Tischendorf and his colleagues, that I knowingly pass over many hundreds of instances where I am nevertheless perfectly well aware of my own strength,--my opponent's weakness.

Such discussions in fact become unbearable when the points in dispute are confessedly trivial.