[44] Surprising it is how largely the text of this place has suffered at the hands of Copyists and Translators. In A and D, the words [Greek: poioumai] and [Greek: echo] have been made to change places. The latter Codex introduces [Greek: moi] after [Greek: echo],--for [Greek: emauto] writes [Greek: emautou],--and exhibits [Greek: tou teleiosai] without [Greek: hos]. C writes [Greek: hos to teleiosai]. [Symbol: Aleph]B alone of Codexes present us with [Greek: teleioso] for [Greek: teleiosai], and are followed by Westcott and Hort _alone of Editors_. The Peshitto ('_sed mihi nihili aestimatur anima mea_'), the Sahidic ('_sed non facto animam meam in ulla re_'), and the Aethiopic ('_sed non reputo animam meam nihil quidquam_'), get rid of [Greek: timian] as well as of [Greek: oude echo]. So much diversity of text, and in such primitive witnesses, while it points to a remote period as the date of the blunder to which attention is called in the text, testifies eloquently to the utter perplexity which that blunder occasioned from the first. [45] Another example of the same phenomenon, (viz. the absorption of [Greek: EN] by the first syllable of [Greek: ANthropois]) is to be seen in Acts iv. 12,--where however the error has led to no mischievous results. [46] For those which insert _in_ (14), and those which reject it (25), see Wordsworth's edition of the Vulgate on this passage. [47] Of Fathers:--Ambrose i. 1298--Hieronymus i. 448^{2}, 693, 876: ii. 213: iv. 34, 92: v. 147: vi. 638: vii. 241, 251, 283,--Augustine 34 times,--Optatus (Galland. v. 472, 457),--Gaudentius Brix. (_ap._ Sabat.),--Chromatius Ag. (Gall. viii. 337),--Orosius (_ib._ ix. 134), Marius M. (_ib._ viii. 672), Maximus Taur. (_ib._ ix. 355),--Sedulius (_ib._ 575),--Leo M. (_ap._ Sabat.),--Mamertus Claudianus (Gall. x. 431),--Vigilius Taps. (_ap._ Sabat.),--Zacchaeus (Gall. ix. 241),--Caesarius Arel. (_ib._ xi. 11),--ps.-Ambros. ii. 394, 396,--Hormisdas P. (Conc. iv. 1494, 1496),--52 Bps. at 8th Council of Toledo (Conc. vi. 395), &c., &c. [48] See Wetstein on this place. [49] Antiqq. i. 99, xviii. 5. 4. CHAPTER III. ACCIDENTAL CAUSES OF CORRUPTION. II. Homoeoteleuton.