“To these examples, others might be added. Thus, Origen says on John i. 4, that in some copies it was written, ‘in Him _is_ life’ for ‘in Him _was_ life.’ This is a reading which we find in sundry quotations before the time of Origen;(188) but now, among all known Greek MSS. it is _only in the Sinaitic, and the famous old Codex Bezae_, a copy of the Gospels at Cambridge; yet it is also found in most of the early Latin versions, in the most ancient Syriac, and in the oldest Coptic.—Again, in Matth. xiii. 35, Jerome observes that in the third century Porphyry, the antagonist of Christianity, had found fault with the Evangelist Matthew for having said, ‘which was spoken by the prophet Esaias.’ A writing of the second century had already witnessed to the same reading; but Jerome adds further that well-informed men had long ago removed the name of Esaias. Among all our MSS. of a thousand years old and upwards, _there is not a solitary example containing the name of Esaias in the text referred to,—except the Sinaitic_, to which a few of less than a thousand years old may be added.—Once more, Origen quotes John xiii. 10 six times; but _only the Sinaitic and several ancient Latin MSS._ read it the same as Origen: ‘He that is washed needeth not to wash, but is clean every whit.’—In John vi. 51, also, where the reading is very difficult to settle, the _Sinaitic is alone among all Greek copies_ indubitably correct; and Tertullian, at the end of the second century, confirms the Sinaitic reading: ‘If any man eat of my bread, he shall live for ever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ We omit to indicate further illustrations of this kind, although there are many others like them.”(189)