NAL SIGMA~}
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}: which results from a mistaken endeavour on the part of some
ancient critic to bring S. Matth. xxvii. 34 into harmony with S. Mark xv.
23. The man did not perceive that the cruel insult of the "vinegar and
gall" (which the SAVIOUR tasted but would not drink) was quite a distinct
thing from the proffered mercy of the "myrrhed wine" which the SAVIOUR put
away from Himself altogether.

So again, it was in order to bring S. Luke xxiv. 13 into harmony with a
supposed fact of geography that Cod. {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~} states that Emmaus, (which Josephus
also places at sixty stadia from Jerusalem), was "_an hundred_ and sixty"
stadia distant. The history of this interpolation of the text is known. It
is because some ancient critic (Origen probably) erroneously assumed that
_Nicopolis_ was the place intended. The conjecture met with favour, and
there are not wanting scholia to declare that this was the reading of "the
accurate" copies,--notwithstanding the physical impossibility which is
involved by the statement.(147)--Another geographical misconception under
which the scribe of Cod. {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~} is found to have laboured was that Nazareth (S.
Luke i. 26) and Capernaum (S. Mark i. 28) were _in Judaea_. Accordingly he
has altered the text in both the places referred to, to suit his private
notion.(148)--A yet more striking specimen of the preposterous method of
the same scribe is supplied by his substitution of {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} for {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}
in Acts viii. 5,--evidently misled by what he found in viii. 40 and xxi.
8.--Again, it must have been with a view of bringing Revelation into
harmony with the (supposed) facts of physical Science that for the highly
sig