Tertullian and Epiphanius of mutilating the _Gospel_ ascribed to Luke, and erasing from it that which is now proved to have never been in that Gospel at all. Finally, the method adopted by Jesus of speaking in parables, in which he only followed the example of his sect, is attributed in the _Homilies_ to a prophecy of _Isaiah_! Peter is made to remark: “For Isaiah said: ‘I will open my mouth in parables, and I will utter things that have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.’” This erroneous reference to Isaiah of a sentence given in _Psalms_ lxxviii. 2, is found not only in the apocryphal _Homilies_, but also in the Sinaitic _Codex_. Commenting on the fact in the _Supernatural Religion_, the author states that “Porphyry, in the third century, twitted Christians with this erroneous ascription by their inspired evangelist to Isaiah of a passage from a _Psalm_, and reduced the Fathers to great straits.”[338] Eusebius and Jerome tried to get out of the difficulty by ascribing the mistake to an “ignorant scribe;” and Jerome even went to the length of asserting that the name of Isaiah never stood after the above sentence in any of the old codices, but that the name of Asaph was found in its place, only “_ignorant_ men had removed it.”[339] To this, the author again observes that “the fact is that the reading ‘Asaph’ for ‘Isaiah’ is not found in any manuscript extant; and, although ‘Isaiah’ has _disappeared_ from all but a few obscure codices, it cannot be denied that the name anciently stood in the text. In the Sinaitic _Codex_, which is probably the earliest manuscript extant ... and which is assigned to the fourth century,” he adds, “the prophet _Isaiah_ stands in the text by the first hand, _but is erased_ by the second.”[340]