130) this place of Scripture was much fastened on by the enemies of the Gospel.

The Manichaean heretics pressed believers with it[569].

The disciples' appeal to the example of Elijah, and the reproof they incurred, became inconvenient facts.

The consequence might be foreseen.
With commendable solicitude for God's honour, but through mistaken piety, certain of the orthodox (without suspicion of the evil they were committing) were so ill-advised as to erase from their copies the twenty-four words which had been turned to mischievous account as well as to cause copies to be made of the books so mutilated: and behold, at the end of 1,700 years, the calamitous result! Of these three clauses then, which are closely interdependent, and as Tischendorf admits[570] must all three stand or all three fall together, the first is found with ACD, the Old Latin, Peshitto, Clement, Chrysostom, Cyril, Jerome,--not with [Symbol: Aleph]B the Vulgate or Curetonian.

The second and third clauses are found with Old Latin, Vulgate, Peshitto, Harkleian, six Greek and five Latin Fathers,--not with [Symbol: Aleph]ABCD.
While [Symbol: Aleph] and B are alone in refusing to recognize either first, second or third clause.