m certain other copies 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~} in ver. 1,--as being _the only two words in the entire Epistle_ which
effectually refuted their Master. It was not needful, (be it observed,) to
multiply copies of the Epistle for the propagation of Marcion's deceit.
Only two words had to be erased,--_the very two words whose omission we are
trying to account for_,--in order to give some colour to his proposed
attribution of the Epistle, ("quasi in isto diligentissimus
explorator,")--to the Laodiceans. One of these mutilated copies will have
fallen into the hands of Origen,--who often complains of the corrupt state
of his text: while the critical personages for whom Cod. B and Cod. {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~} were
transcribed will probably have been acquainted with other such mutilated
copies. Are we not led, as it were by the hand, to take some such view of
the case? In this way we account satisfactorily, and on grounds of
historic evidence, for the omission which has exercised the Critics so
severely.

I do not lose sight of the fact that the Epistle to the Ephesians ends
without salutations, without personal notices of any kind. But in this
respect it is not peculiar.(186) _That_,--joined to a singular absence of
identifying allusion,--sufficiently explains why Marcion selected this
particular Epistle for the subject of his fraud. But, to infer from this
circumstance, in defiance of the Tradition of the Church Universal, and in
defiance of its very Title, that the Epistle is "Encyclical," in the
technical sense of that word; and to go on to urge this characteristic as
an argument in support of the 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~},--is clearly
the device of an eager Advocate; not the method of a calm and unprejudiced
Judge. True it is that S. Paul,--who, writing to the Corinthians from
Ephesus, says "_the Churches of Asia_ salute you," (1 Cor. xvi. 19,)--may
have known very well that an Epistle of his "to the Ephesians," would, as
a matter of course, be instantly c