A?
What if the scribe had proceeded as far as the fourth word of St.John viii.
3, and then had suddenly checked himself?
We cannot tell what appearance St.John vii.

53-viii.

11 presented in Codex A, simply because the entire leaf which should have contained it is lost.

Enough however has been said already to prove that it is incorrect and unfair to throw [Symbol: Aleph]AB into one and the same category,--with a 'certissimum,'-- as Tischendorf does.
As for L and [Symbol: Delta], they exhibit a vacant space after St.John vii.

52,--which testifies to the consciousness of the copyists that they were leaving out something.