No one however will deny that when three consecutive words of our Lord are challenged they are worth contending for.

We are invited then to believe (St.Luke xxii.

67-8) that He did not utter the bracketed words in the following sentence,--'If I tell you, ye will not believe; and if I ask you, ye will not answer (Me, nor let Me go).' Now, I invite the reader to inquire for the grounds of this assertion.
Fifteen of the uncials (including AD), and every known cursive, besides all the Latin and all the Syriac copies recognize the bracketed words.
They are only missing in [Symbol: Aleph]BLT and their ally the Bohairic.
Are we nevertheless to be assured that the words are to be regarded as spurious?
Let the reader then be informed that Marcion left out seven words more (viz.

all from, 'And if I ask you' to the end), and will he doubt either that the words are genuine or that their disappearance from four copies of bad character, as proved by their constant evidence, and from one version is sufficiently explained?
FOOTNOTES: [441] [Greek: pseudonymou gnoseos] 1 Tim.vi.

20.
[442] 1 Tim.iv.