[224] Compare on this subject, especially Flatt and Lücke. [↑]
[225] Comm. 4, s. 437; in the L. J. 1, b, s. 57, and 2, b, s. 46, this conjecture is no longer employed. [↑]
[226] Ut sup. s. 272 ff. Even Neander shows himself not disinclined to such a conjecture as far as regards v. 4 (s. 349). As Gabler believes that these expressions cannot have come from Jesus, but only from John, so Dieffenbach, in Bertholdt’s Krit. Journal, 5, s. 7 ff., maintains that they cannot have proceeded from John, and as he holds that the rest of the gospel is the production of that apostle, he pronounces those passages to be interpolations. [↑]
[228] Bretschneider, Probab., s. 61. [↑]
[230] Comm. 2, s. 376. Also Neander, s. 346. [↑]