Instructive in the meantime it is to note the fate which this word has experienced at the hands of some Critics. Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Westcott and Hort, have all in turn bowed to the authority of Cod. B and Origen. Bishop Lightfoot mistranslates[209] and contends on the same side. Alford informs us that [Greek: epipeson] has surreptitiously crept in 'from St. Luke xv. 20': (why should it? how could it?) '[Greek: anapeson] not seeming appropriate.' Whereas, on the contrary, [Greek: anapeson] is the invariable and obvious expression,--[Greek: epipeson] the unusual, and, till it has been explained, the unintelligible word. Tischendorf,--who had read [Greek: epipeson] in 1848 and [Greek: anapeson] in 1859,--in 1869 reverts to his first opinion; advocating with parental partiality what he had since met with in Cod. [Symbol: Aleph]. Is then the truth of Scripture aptly represented by that fitful beacon-light somewhere on the French coast,--now visible, now eclipsed, now visible again,--which benighted travellers amuse themselves by watching from the deck of the Calais packet? It would be time to pass on. But because in this department of study men are observed never to abandon a position until they are fairly shelled out and left without a pretext for remaining, I proceed to shew that [Greek: anapeson] (for [Greek: epipeson]) is only one corrupt reading out of many others hereabouts. The proof of this statement follows. Might it not have been expected that the old uncials' ([Symbol: Aleph]ABCD) would exhibit the entire context of such a passage as the present with tolerable accuracy? The reader is invited to attend to the results of collation:-- xiii. 21.-[Greek: o] [Symbol: Aleph]B: [Greek: umin lego] _tr._ B. xiii. 22.-[Greek: oun] BC: + [Greek: oi Ioudaioi] [Symbol: Aleph]: [Greek: aporountei] D. xiii. 23.-[Greek: de] B: + [Greek: ek] [Symbol: Aleph]ABCD:-[Greek: o] B: + [Greek: kai] D. xiii. 24. (_for_ [Greek: pythesthai tis an eie] + [Greek: outos] D) [Greek: kai legei auto, eipe tis estin] BC: (_for_ [Greek: legei]) [Greek: elegen] [Symbol: Aleph]: + [Greek: kai legei auto eipe tis estin peri ou legei] [Symbol: Aleph]. xiii. 25. (_for_ [Greek: epipeson]) [Greek: anapeson] BC:-[Greek: de] BC: (_for_ [Greek: de]) [Greek: oun] [Symbol: Aleph]D; -[Greek: outos] [Symbol: Aleph]AD. xiii. 26. + [Greek: oun] BC: + [Greek: auto] D:--[Greek: o] B: + [Greek: kai legei] [Symbol: Aleph]BD: + [Greek: an] D: (_for_ [Greek: bapsas]) [Greek: embapsas] AD: [Greek: bapso ... kai doso auto] BC: + [Greek: psomou] (_after_ [Greek: psomion]) C: (_for_ [Greek: embapsas]) [Greek: bapsas] D: (_for_ [Greek: kai embapsas]) [Greek: bapsas oun] [Symbol: Aleph]BC: -[Greek: to] B: + [Greek: lambanei kai] BC: [Greek: Iskariotou] [Symbol: Aleph]BC: [Greek: apo Karyotou] D.