(8) ibid. 6. (“He is not here, but He is risen,”—5 words.)
(9) ibid. 9. (“from the sepulchre,”—3 words.)
(10) ibid. 12. (The mention of S. Peter's visit to the sepulchre,—22 words.)
(11) ibid. 36. (“and saith unto them, Peace be unto you!”—5 words.)
(12) ibid. 40. (“and when He had thus spoken, He showed them His hands and His feet,”—10 words.)
(13) ibid. 42. (“and of an honeycomb,”—4 words.)
(14) ibid. 51. (“and was carried up into Heaven,”—5.)
(15) ibid. 52. (“worshipped Him,”—2 words.)
(16) ibid. 53. (“praising and,”—2 words.)
On an attentive survey of the foregoing sixteen instances of unauthorized Omission, it will be perceived that the 1st passage (S. Luke xxii. 19, 20) must have been eliminated from the Text because the mention of two Cups seemed to create a difficulty.—The 2nd has been suppressed because (see p. [82]) the incident was deemed derogatory to the majesty of God Incarnate.—The 3rd and 5th were held to be superfluous, because the information which they contain has been already conveyed by the parallel passages.—The 10th will have been omitted as apparently inconsistent with the strict letter of S. John xx. 1-10.—The 6th and 13th are certainly instances of enforced Harmony.—Most of the others (the 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th) seem to have been excised through mere wantonness,—the veriest licentiousness.—In the meantime, so far are Drs. Westcott and Hort from accepting the foregoing account of the matter, that they even style the 1st “a perverse interpolation:” in which view of the subject, however, they enjoy the distinction of standing entirely alone. With the same “moral certainty,” they further proceed to shut up within double [pg 077] brackets the 2nd, 4th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th: while the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 13th, and 16th, they exclude from their Text as indisputably spurious matter.