(_b_) Again, when in Codd. [Symbol: Aleph]B we find [Greek: tassomenos] thrust without warrant into St. Matt. viii. 9, we see that the word has lost its way from St. Luke vii. 8; and we are prone to suspect that only by accident has it crept into the parallel narrative of the earlier Evangelist. (_c_) In the same way I make no doubt that [Greek: potamo] (St. Matt. iii. 6) is indebted for its place in [Symbol: Aleph]BC, &c., to the influence of the parallel place in St. Mark's Gospel (i. 5); and I am only astonished that critics should have been beguiled into adopting so clear a corruption of the text as part of the genuine Gospel. (_d_) To be brief:--the insertion by [Symbol: Aleph] of [Greek: adelphe] (in St. Matt. vii. 4) is confessedly the result of the parallel passage in St. Luke vi. 42. The same scribe may be thought to have written [Greek: to anemo] instead of [Greek: tois anemois] in St. Matt. viii. 26, only because he was so familiar with [Greek: to anemo] in St. Luke viii. 24 and in St. Mark iv. 39.--The author of the prototype of [Symbol: Aleph]BD (with whom by the way are some of the Latin versions) may have written [Greek: echete] in St. Matt, xvi. 8, only because he was thinking of the parallel place in St. Mark viii. 17.--[Greek: Erxanto aganaktein] (St. Matt. xx. 24) can only have been introduced into [Symbol: Aleph] from the parallel place in St. Mark x. 41, and _may_ have been supplied _memoriter_.--St. Luke xix. 21 is clearly not parallel to St. Matt. xxv. 24; yet it evidently furnished the scribe of [Symbol: Aleph] with the epithet [Greek: austeros] in place of [Greek: skleros].--The substitution by [Symbol: Aleph] of [Greek: hon paretounto] in St. Matt. xxvii. 15 for [Greek: hon ethelon] may seem to be the result of inconvenient familiarity with the parallel place in St. Mark xv. 6; where, as has been shewn[185], instead of [Greek: honper eitounto], Symbol: [Aleph]AB viciously exhibit [Greek: hon paretounto], which Tischendorf besides Westcott and Hort mistake for the genuine Gospel. Who will hesitate to admit that, when [Symbol: Aleph]L exhibit in St. Matt. xix. 16,--instead of the words [Greek: poieso hina echo zoen aionion],--the formula which is found in the parallel place of St. Luke xviii. 18, viz. [Greek: poiesas zoen aionion kleronomeso],--those unauthorized words must have been derived from this latter place? Every ordinary reader will be further prone to assume that the scribe who first inserted them into St. Matthew's Gospel did so because, for whatever reason, he was more familiar with the latter formula than with the former.