11--from their lawful context.
We may now proceed to the consideration of my second proposition, which is (2) _That by the very construction of her Lectionary, the Church in her corporate capacity and official character has solemnly recognised the narrative in question as an integral part of St.John's Gospel, and as standing in its traditional place, from an exceedingly remote time_.
Take into your hands at random the first MS.

copy of St.John's Gospel which presents itself, and turn to the place in question.

Nay, I will instance _all_ the four Evangelia which I call mine,--all the seventeen which belong to Lord Zouch,--all the thirty-nine which Baroness Burdett-Coutts imported from Epirus in 1870-2.

Now all these copies--( and nearly each of them represents a different line of ancestry)--are found to contain the verses in question.

How did the verses ever get there?
But the most extraordinary circumstance of the case is behind.