uncial and cursive, including ACD; every known lectionary; all the Latin, the Syriac (Cur.om.Clause 1), and indeed every other known version: besides seven good Greek Fathers beginning with Clemens Alex.

(A.D.
190), and five Latin Fathers beginning with Tertullian (A.D.

190): Cyprian's testimony being in fact the voice of the Fourth Council of Carthage, A.D.253.

If on a survey of this body of evidence any one will gravely tell me that the preponderance of authority still seems to him to be in favour of the shorter reason, I can but suggest that the sooner he communicates to the world the grounds for his opinion, the better.
(1) In the meantime it becomes necessary to consider the disputed clauses separately, because ancient authorities, rivalling modern critics, are unable to agree as to which they will reject, which they will retain.

I begin with the second.