LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} in ver. 68: the last change being countenanced by
B.)"(145) One such discovery, I take leave to point out, is enough to
destroy all confidence in the text of these two manuscripts: for it proves
that another kind of corrupting influence,--besides carelessness, and
accident, and tasteless presumption, and unskilful assiduity,--has been at
work on Codices B and {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}. We are constrained to approach these two
manuscripts with suspicion in all cases where a supposed critical
difficulty in harmonizing the statements of the several Evangelists will
account for any of the peculiar readings which they exhibit.

Accordingly, it does not at all surprise me to discover that in both
Codices the important word {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} (in S. Matth. xxviii. 8) has been
altered into {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}. I recognise in that substitution of {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} for {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}
the hand of one who was not aware that the women, when addressed by the
Angel, were _inside the sepulchre_; but who accepted the belief (it is
found to have been as common in ancient as in modern times) that they
beheld him "sitting on the stone."(146)--In consequence of a similar
misconception, both Codices are observed to present us with the word
"_wine_" instead of "_vinegar_" in S. Matthew's phrase {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH VARIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FI