TER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~} are
required for the sense; and that the commonly received reading is no doubt
the correct one: then,--there is an end of the discussion. Two
extraordinary notes of sympathy between two Manuscripts will have been
appealed to as crucial proofs of the _trustworthiness of the Text_ of
those Manuscripts: (for of their high _Antiquity_, let me say it once
more, there can be no question whatever:) and it will have been proved in
one case,--admitted in the other,--that _the omission is unwarrantable_.--If,
however, on the contrary, it be maintained that the words {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~}
probably had no place in the original copy of this Epistle, but are to be
regarded as an unauthorized addition to it,--then, (as in the case of the
Twelve Verses omitted from the end of S. Mark's Gospel, and which it was
_also_ pretended are an unauthorized supplement,) we demand to be shewn
the evidence on the strength of which this opinion is maintained, in order
that we may ascertain what it is precisely worth.

Tischendorf,--the illustrious discoverer and champion of Codex {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}, and who
is accustomed to appeal triumphantly to its omission of the words {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~}
as _the other_ conclusive proof of the trustworthiness of its text,--may be
presumed to be the most able advocate it is likely to meet with, as well
as the man best acquainted with what is to be urged in its support. From
him, we learn that the evidence for the omission of the words in question
is as follows:--"In the beginning of the Epistle to the Ephesians we read,
'to the saints which are at Ephesus;' but Marcion (A.D. 130-140), did not
find the words 'at Ephesus' in his copy. The same is true of Origen (A.D.
185-254); and Basil the Great (who died A.D. 379), affirmed that those
words were wanting in _old_ copies. And this omission accords very well
with the encyclical or general characte