the piercing of our
Redeemer's side from S. John xix. 24 to S. Matth. xxvii., in Cod. B and
Cod. {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}, where it is introduced at the end of ver. 49,--in defiance of
reason as well as of authority.(139) "This interpolation" (remarks Mr.
Scrivener) "which would represent the SAVIOUR as pierced while yet living,
is a good example of the fact that some of our highest authorities may
combine in attesting a reading unquestionably false."(140) Another
singularly gross specimen of interpolation, in my judgment, is supplied by
the purely apocryphal statement which is met with in Cod. {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}, at the end of
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