A.
Woide, the learned and accurate[593] editor of the Codex Alexandrinus, remarked (in 1785)--'Historia adulterae _videtur_ in hoc codice defuisse.' But this modest inference of his, subsequent Critics have represented as an ascertained fact, Tischendorf announces it as 'certissimum.' Let me be allowed to investigate the problem for myself.
Woide's calculation,--( which has passed unchallenged for nearly a hundred years, and on the strength of which it is now-a-days assumed that Cod.

A must have exactly resembled Codd.

[Symbol: Aleph]B in _omitting_ the _pericope de adultera_,)--was far too roughly made to be of any critical use[594].
Two leaves of Cod.

A have been here lost: viz.

from the word [Greek: katabainon] in vi.