text_. To interpolate that new title,
and to erase the two words which were plainly inconsistent with it, were
obviously correlative acts which must always have been performed together.

But however all this may be, (as already pointed out,) the only question
to be determined by us is,--whether it be credible 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~}
are an unauthorized addition; foisted into the text of Ephes. i. 1 as far
back as the Apostolic age: an interpolation which, instead of dying out,
and at last all but disappearing, has spread and established itself, until
the words are found in every copy,--are represented in every
translation,--have been recognised in every country,--witnessed to by every
Father,--received in every age of the Church? I repeat that the one
question which has to be decided is, not _how_ 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~} came to
be put in, or came to be left out; but simply whether, on an impartial
review of the evidence, it be reasonable (with Tischendorf, Tregelles,
Conybeare and Howson, and so many more,) to suspect their genuineness and
enclose them in brackets? Is it _credible_ 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~} are a
spurious and unauthorized addition to the inspired autograph of the
Apostle?... We have already, as I think, obtained a satisfactory answer to
this question. It has been shewn, as conclusively as in inquiries of this
nature is possible, that in respect of the reading of Ephesians i. 1,
Codd. B and {~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~} are even _most_ conspicuously at fault.

IV. But if these two Codices are thus convicted of error in respect of the
one remaining text which their chief upholders have selected, and to which
they still make their most confident appeal,--what remains, but to point
out that it is high time that men