St. Mark viii. 26. After curing the blind man outside Bethsaida, our Lord in that remarkable period of His career directed him, according to the Traditional reading, ([Symbol: alpha]) neither to enter into that place, [Greek: mede eis ten komen eiselthes], nor ([Symbol: beta]) to tell what had happened to any inhabitant of Bethsaida ([Greek: mede eipes tini en te kome]). Either some one who did not understand the Greek, or some matter-of-fact and officious scholar, or both, thought or maintained that [Greek: tini en te kome] must mean some one who was at the moment actually in the place. So the second clause got to be omitted from the text of B[Symbol: Aleph], who are followed only by one cursive and a half (the first reading of 1 being afterwards corrected), and the Bohairic version, and the Lewis MS. The Traditional reading is attested by ACN[Symbol: Sigma] and thirteen other Uncials, all Cursives except eight, of which six with [Symbol: Phi] read a consolidation of both clauses, by several versions, and by Theophylact (i. 210) who is the only Father that quotes the place. This evidence ought amply to ensure the genuineness of this reading. But what says Dr. Hort? 'Here [Symbol: alpha] is simple and vigorous, and it is unique in the New Testament: the peculiar [Greek: Mede] has the terse force of many sayings as given by St. Mark, but the softening into [Greek: Me] by [Symbol: Aleph]* shews that it might trouble scribes.' It is surely not necessary to controvert this. It may be said however that [Symbol: alpha] is bald as well as simple, and that the very difficulty in [Symbol: beta] makes it probable that that clause was not invented. To take [Greek: tini en te kome] Hebraistically for [Greek: tini ton en te kome], like the [Greek: tis en hymin] of St. James v. 19[620], need not trouble scholars, I think. Otherwise they can follow Meyer, according to Winer's Grammar (II. 511), and translate the second [Greek: mede] _nor even_. At all events, this is a poor pillar to support a great theory. (3) St. Mark ix. 38. 'Master, we saw one casting out devils in Thy name, ([Symbol: beta]) who doth not follow us, and we forbad him ([Symbol: alpha]) because he followeth not us.' Here the authority for [Symbol: alpha] is [Symbol: Aleph]BCL[Symbol: Delta], four Cursives, f, Bohairic, Peshitto, Ethiopic, and the Lewis MS. For [Symbol: beta] there are D, two Cursives, all the Old Latin but f and the Vulgate. For the Traditional Text, i.e. the whole passage, A[Symbol: Phi][Symbol: Sigma]N + eleven Uncials, all the Cursives but six, the Harkleian (yet obelizes [Symbol: alpha]) and Gothic versions, Basil (ii. 252), Victor of Antioch (Cramer, Cat. i. 365), Theophylact (i. 219): and Augustine quotes separately both omissions ([Symbol: alpha] ix. 533, and [Symbol: beta] III. ii. 153). No other Fathers, so far as I can find, quote the passage.