R EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~}. If he was acquainted with Origen's text, (of which, however, his
writings afford no indication,) it is plain that he disapproved of it.
Others, he says, understand S. Paul to say not "the Saints _which are_:"
but,--"the Saints and faithful _which are at Ephesus_."(168)

(5) The witnesses have now all been heard: and I submit that there has
been elicited from their united evidence nothing at all calculated to
shake our confidence in the universally received reading of Ephesians i.
1. The facts of the case are so scanty that they admit of being faithfully
stated in a single sentence. Two MSS. of the ivth century, (exhibiting in
other respects several striking notes of vicious sympathy,) are found to
conspire in omitting a clause in Ephesians i. 1, which, (necessary as it
is to the sense,) may be inferred to have been absent from Origen's copy:
and Basil testifies that it was absent from "the old copies" to which he
himself obtained access. This is really the whole of the matter: in which
it is much to be noted that Origen does not say that he _approved_ of this
reading. Still less does Basil. They both witness to _the fact_ 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~} were omitted from _some_ copies of the iiird century, just
as Codd. B and {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~} witness to the same fact in the ivth. But what then?
Origen is known occasionally to go out of his way to notice readings
confessedly worthless; and, why not here? For not only is the text all but
_unintelligible_ if 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~} be omitted: but (what is far more
to the purpose) the direct evidence of _all_ the copies, whether uncial or
cursive,(169)--and of _all_ the Versions,--is _against_ the omission. In the
face of this overwhelming mass of unfaltering evidence to insist that
Codd. B and {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~} must yet be accounted right, and all