As to genuineness, the evidence is decisive. The reading [Symbol: Alpha] is Alexandrian, adopted by B[Symbol: Aleph], and is bad Greek into the bargain, [Greek: enedreuontes thereusai] being very rough, and being probably due to incompetent acquaintance with the Greek language. If [Symbol: alpha] was the original, it is hard to see how [Symbol: beta] could have come from it. That the figurative language of [Symbol: alpha] was replaced in [Symbol: beta] by a simply descriptive paraphrase, as Dr. Hort suggests, seems scarcely probable. On the other hand, the derivation of either [Symbol: alpha] or [Symbol: beta] from the Traditional Text is much easier. A scribe would without difficulty pass over one of the participles lying contiguously with no connecting conjunction, and having a kind of Homoeoteleuton. And as to [Symbol: beta], the distinguishing [Greek: aphormen tina] would be a very natural gloss, requiring for completeness of the phrase the accompanying [Greek: labein]. This is surely a more probable solution of the question of the mutual relationship of the readings than the laboured account of Dr. Hort, which is too long to be produced here. (7) St. Luke xii. 18. 'I will pull down my barns, and build greater, and there will I bestow all [Symbol: alpha]. My corn and my goods. [Symbol: beta]. My crops ([Greek: ta genemata mou]). My fruits ([Greek: tous karpous mou]). Trad. Text. My crops ([Greek: ta genemata mou]) and my goods.' This is a faulty instance, because it is simply a substitution, as Dr. Hort admitted, in [Symbol: alpha] of the more comprehensive word [Greek: genemata] for [Greek: siton], and a simple omission of [Greek: kai ta agatha mou] in [Symbol: beta]. And the admission of it into the selected eight shews the difficulty that Dr. Hort must have experienced in choosing his examples. The evidence is-- [Symbol: alpha]. BTLX and a correction of [Symbol: Aleph](a^{c}), eight Cursives, Peshitto, Bohairic, Sahidic, Armenian, Ethiopic. [Symbol: beta]. [Symbol: Aleph]*D, three Cursives, b ff i q, Curetonian and Lewis, St. Ambrose (i. 573). Trad. Text. AQ + thirteen Uncials. All Cursives except twelve, _f_, Vulgate, Harkleian, Cyril Alex. (Mai, ii. 294-5) _bis_, Theophylact (i. 370), Peter Chrysologus (Migne 52, 490-1) _bis_. No more need be said: substitutions and omissions are too common to require justification. (8) St. Luke xxiv. 53. 'They were continually in the temple [Symbol: alpha]. Blessing God ([Greek: eulogountes]). [Symbol: beta]. Praising God ([Greek: ainountes]). Trad. Text. Praising and blessing God.' The evidence is-- [Symbol: alpha]. [Symbol: Aleph]BC*L, Bohairic, Palestinian, Lewis. [Symbol: beta]. D, seven Old Latin. Trad. Text. AC^{2} + twelve Uncials, all Cursives, c f q, Vulgate, Peshitto, Harkleian, Armenian, Ethiopic, Theophylact (i. 497).