5[562].
The matter in hand will be conveniently illustrated by inviting the reader's attention to another famous place.

There is a singular consent among the Critics for eliminating from St.Luke ix.

54-6, twenty-four words which embody two memorable sayings of the Son of Man.

The entire context is as follows:--'Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, (as Elias did)?
But he turned, and rebuked them, (and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.) (For the Son of Man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.) And they went to another village.' The three bracketed clauses contain the twenty-four words in dispute.
The first of these clauses ([Greek: hos kai Helias epoiese]), which claims to be part of the inquiry of St.John and St.James, Mill rejected as an obvious interpolation.

'Res ipsa clamat.