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In their accounts of his curing the paralytic what parenthetical clause is to be found in each of the Synoptics?
“(Then saith he to the sick of the palsy)” ([Matthew ix, 6]; [Mark ii, 10]; [Luke v, 24]).
As the clause is superfluous, this agreement, instead of furnishing proof of divine inspiration, tends to prove what has already been affirmed, that these books are not original, but copied, for the most part, from older documents.