This divergence becomes most conspicuous when we direct our attention to the grounds for omitting the foremost clause of the three, [Greek: hos kai Elias epoiesen]: for here we make the notable discovery that the evidence is not only less weighty, but also different.

Codexes B and [Symbol: Aleph] are now forsaken by all their former allies except L[Symbol: Xi] and a single cursive copy.
True, they are supported by the Curetonian Syriac, the Vulgate and two copies of the Old Latin.

But this time they find themselves confronted by Codexes ACD with thirteen other uncials and the whole body of the cursives; the Peshitto, Coptic, Gothic, and Harkleian versions; by Clemens, Jerome, Chrysostom, Cyril and pseudo-Basil.

In respect of antiquity, variety, respectability, numbers, they are therefore hopelessly outvoted.
Do any inquire, How then has all this contradiction and depravation of Codexes [Symbol: Aleph]ABC( D) come about?
I answer as follows:-- It was a favourite tenet with the Gnostic heretics that the Law and the Gospel are at variance.

In order to establish this, Marcion (in a work called Antitheses) set passages of the New Testament against passages of the Old; from the seeming disagreement between which his followers were taught to infer that the Law and the Gospel cannot have proceeded from one and the same author[567].