37 E.g. Cheyne, Conybeare, Grill, Harnack, Hillmann, Holtzmann, Loisy, Montefiore, Pfleiderer, N. Schmidt, Schmiedel, Usener, Völter, J. Weiss. On the other side are Hilgenfeld, Clemen, Gunkel, Chase, Stanton, Orr, Box, Knowling. 38 But see W. C. Allen, ICC., St. Mt., p. 10 and p. 19. 39 Some scholars, including Häcker, Spitta, and Montefiore, bring verses 36, 37 within the interpolation. Schmiedel’s presentation of the argument stated above is as follows: “Moreover, the case of Elizabeth to which the angel points in v. 36 is no evidence of the possibility of a supernatural conception; it has evidential value only if what has happened to Elizabeth is more wonderful than what is being promised to Mary—namely that she, in the way of nature, is to become the mother of the Messiah” (EB., col. 2957). 40 Schmiedel, op. cit., col. 2957. To the same effect J. Estlin Carpenter (op. cit., p. 487 f.). Compare Lk. i. 45 where Mary is praised for her faith, and see Moffatt, INT., p. 268 f. 41 Cf. Lobstein, _The Virgin Birth of Christ_, p. 67. 42 Cf. Moffatt (INT., p. 268 n.): “The substitution ... is too slender a basis, and may have been accidental, whilst the alleged omission of 34‐5 from the _Protevangelium Iacobi_ breaks down upon examination” (cf. Headlam’s discussion with Conybeare in the _Guardian_ for March‐April 1903). 43 _The New Testament Documents, their Origin and early History_ (Croall Lectures, 1911‐12). 1913. 44 Cf. also Burkitt (GHT., p. 11): “... the text of the Gospels, the actual wording, and even to some extent the contents, were not treated during the second century with particular scrupulosity by the Christians who preserved and canonized them. There is nothing in the way which Christians treated the books of the New Testament during the first four centuries that corresponds with the care bestowed by the Jews upon the Hebrew Scriptures from the time of Aquiba onwards.” See also Blass, _Philology of the Gospels_, p. 72 f. 45 Cf. Sanday (_Inspiration_, 2nd Ed., pp. 295‐8): “Possessors of copies did not hesitate to add little items of tradition, often oral, and in some cases perhaps written, which reached them” (295). See also J. H. Moulton (_From Egyptian Rubbish Heaps_, pp. 97 ff.), and an article in the _Classical Review_ for March 1915 on “The Primitive Text of the Gospels and Acts”; J. A. Robinson, _Study of the Gospels_, p. 24 f. 46 Cf. also Hawkins (HS., 2nd Ed., pp. 152 and 197), who instances “additions of various kinds which may be regarded as probably editorial” (p. 197) in the Second and Third Gospels. See also Moffatt (INT.), under heading “Glosses in NT. text”, p. 641, where references are given to cases treated in the body of the work.