[Another case of confusion between [Greek: o] and [Greek: o] may be seen in St. Luke xv. 24, 32, where [Greek: apololos] has gained so strong a hold that it is found in the Received Text for [Greek: apololos], which last being the better attested appears to be the right reading[118]. But the instance which requires the most attention is [Greek: katharizon] in St. Mark vii. 19, and all the more because in _The Last Twelve Verses of St. Mark_, the alteration into [Greek: katharizon] is advocated as being 'no part of the Divine discourse, but the Evangelist's inspired comment on the Saviour's words[119].' Such a question must be decided strictly by the testimony, not upon internal evidence--which in fact is in this case absolutely decisive neither way, for people must not be led by the attractive view opened by [Greek: katharizon], and [Greek: katharizon] bears a very intelligible meaning. When we find that the uncial evidence is divided, there being eight against the change ([Symbol: Phi][Symbol: Sigma]KMUV[Symbol: Gamma][Symbol: Pi]), and eleven for it ([Symbol: Aleph]ABEFGHLSX[Symbol: Delta]);--that not much is advanced by the versions, though the Peshitto, the Lewis Codex, the Harkleian (?), the Gothic, the Old Latin[120], the Vulgate, favour [Greek: katharizon];--nor by the Fathers:--since Aphraates[121], Augustine (?)[122], and Novatian[123] are contradicted by Origen[124], Theophylact[125], and Gregory Thaumaturgus[126], we discover that we have not so far made much way towards a satisfactory conclusion. The only decided element of judgement, so far as present enquiries have reached, since suspicion is always aroused by the conjunction of [Symbol: Aleph]AB, is supplied by the cursives which with a large majority witness to the received reading. It is not therefore safe to alter it till a much larger examination of existing evidence is made than is now possible. If difficulty is felt in the meaning given by [Greek: katharizon],--and that there is such difficulty cannot candidly be denied,--this is balanced by the grammatical difficulty introduced by [Greek: katharizon], which would be made to agree in the same clause with a verb separated from it by thirty-five parenthetic words, including two interrogations and the closing sentence. Those people who form their judgement from the Revised Version should bear in mind that the Revisers, in order to make intelligible sense, were obliged to introduce three fresh English words that have nothing to correspond to them in the Greek; being a repetition of what the mind of the reader would hardly bear in memory. Let any reader who doubts this leave out the words in italics and try the effect for himself. The fact is that to make this reading satisfactory, another alteration is required. [Greek: Katharizon panta ta bromata] ought either to be transferred to the 20th verse or to the beginning of the 18th. Then all would be clear enough,