But then it so happens that--attracted by the two datives between which [Greek: kardias] stands, and tempted by the consequent jingle, a surprising number of copies are found to exhibit the 'perfectly absurd' and 'wholly unnatural reading[253],' [Greek: plaxi kardiAIS sarkinAIS]. And because (as might have been expected from their character) A[254]B[Symbol: Aleph]CD[255] are all five of the number,--Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Westcott and Hort, one and all adopt and advocate the awkward blunder[256]. [Greek: Kardiais] is also adopted by the Revisers of 1881 without so much as a hint let fall in the margin that the evidence is overwhelmingly against themselves and in favour of the traditional Text of the Authorized Version[257]. FOOTNOTES: [228] St. Luke vi. 16; Acts i. 13; St. Jude 1. [229] Above, pp. 28-31. [230] 753 _int_. [231] ii. 843 c. Also _int_ ii. 96, 303; iv. 419, 489, 529, 558. [232] _Ap_. Orig. i. 866 a,--interesting and emphatic testimony. [233] Cord. Cat. in Ps. i. 272. [234] i. 161 e. Cord. Cat. in Ps. i. 844. [235] i. 682 ([Greek: ouk en plaxi lithinais ... all' en to tes kardias pyxio]). [236] Galland. viii. 40 b. [237] vii. 2: x. 475. [238] i. 29. [239] i. 8: ii. 504: v^{2}. 65. (Aubert prints [Greek: kardias sarkines]. The published Concilia (iii. 140) exhibits [Greek: kardias sarkinais]. Pusey, finding in one of his MSS. [Greek: all' en plaxi kardias lithinais] (sic), prints [Greek: kardias sarkinais].) _Ap_. Mai, iii. 89, 90. [240] 299. [241] iii. 302. [242] Concil. vi. 154. [243] ii. 129. [244] 344. [245] i. 762: ii. 668, 1380. [246] Galland. v. 505. [247] vi. 609. [248] Galland. viii. 742 dis. [249] i. 672: ii. 49: iii^{1}. 472, 560: iv. 1302: v. 743-4: viii. 311: x. 98, 101, 104, 107, 110. [250] Galland. xi. 248. [251] Ps.-Ambrose, ii. 176. [252] Yet strange to say, Tischendorf claims the support of Didymus and Theodoret for [Greek: kardiais], on the ground that in the course of their expository remarks they contrast [Greek: kardiai sarkinai] (or [Greek: logikai]) with [Greek: plakes lithinai]: as if it were not the word [Greek: plaxi] which alone occasions difficulty. Again, Tischendorf enumerates Cod. E (Paul) among his authorities. Had he then forgotten that E is '_nothing better than a transcript of Cod. D_ (Claromontanus), made by some ignorant person'? that 'the Greek _is manifestly worthless_, and that it should long since have been removed from the list of authorities'? [Scrivener's Introd., 4th edit., i. 177. See also Traditional Text, p. 65, and note. Tischendorf is frequently inaccurate in his references to the fathers.] [253] Scrivener's Introd. ii. 254. [254] A in the Epistles differs from A in the Gospels. [255] Besides GLP and the following cursives,--29, 30, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 55, 74, 104, 106, 109, 112, 113, 115, 137, 219, 221, 238, 252, 255, 257, 262, 277.