entire leaf which should have contained it is lost. Enough however has been said already to prove that it is incorrect and unfair to throw [Symbol: Aleph]AB into one and the same category,--with a 'certissimum,'--as Tischendorf does. As for L and [Symbol: Delta], they exhibit a vacant space after St. John vii. 52,--which testifies to the consciousness of the copyists that they were leaving out something. These are therefore witnesses _for_,--not witnesses _against_,--the passage under discussion.--X being a Commentary on the Gospel as it was read in Church, of course leaves the passage out.--The only uncial MSS. therefore which _simply_ leave out the pericope, are the three following--[Symbol: Aleph]BT: and the degree of attention to which such an amount of evidence is entitled, has been already proved to be wondrous small. We cannot forget moreover that the two former of these copies enjoy the unenviable distinction of standing alone on a memorable occasion:--they _alone_ exhibit St. Mark's Gospel mutilated in respect of its twelve concluding verses. But I shall be reminded that about seventy MSS. of later date are without the _pericope de adultera_: that the first Greek Father who quotes the pericope is Euthymius in the twelfth century: that Tertullian, Origen, Chrysostom, Cyril, Nonnus, Cosmas, Theophylact, knew nothing of it: and that it is not contained in the Syriac, the Gothic, or the Egyptian versions. Concerning every one of which statements I remark over again that no sincere lover of Truth, supposing him to understand the matter about which he is disputing, could so exhibit the evidence for this particular problem. First, because so to state it is to misrepresent the entire case. Next, because some of the articles of indictment are only half true:--in fact are _untrue_. But chiefly, because in the foregoing enumeration certain considerations are actually suppressed which, had they been fairly stated, would have been found to reverse the issue. Let me now be permitted to conduct this inquiry in my own way.