CHAPTER XIV.
CAUSES OF CORRUPTION CHIEFLY INTENTIONAL.
X.Corruption by the Orthodox.
Sec.

1.
Another cause why, in very early times, the Text of the Gospels underwent serious depravation, was mistaken solicitude on the part of the ancient orthodox for the purity of the Catholic faith.

These persons, like certain of the moderns, Beza for example, evidently did not think it at all wrong to tamper with the inspired Text.

If any expression seemed to them to have a dangerous tendency, they altered it, or transplanted it, or removed it bodily from the sacred page.

About the uncritical nature of what they did, they entertained no suspicion: about the immorality of the proceeding, they evidently did not trouble themselves at all.