Let the foregoing be accepted as a specimen of the injury occasionally sustained by the Evangelical text in a very remote age from the evil influence of the fabricated narratives, or _Diatessarons_, which anciently abounded. The genuineness of the clause { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}, it is hoped, will never more be seriously called in question. Surely it has been demonstrated to be quite above suspicion(460).
APPENDIX II. { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI AND OXIA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}--VINEGAR.
[The Dean thought this to be one of his most perfect papers.]
When He had reached the place called Golgotha, there were some who _offered_ to the Son of Man ({ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} "were for giving" Him) a draught of wine drugged with myrrh(461). He would not so much as taste it. Presently, the soldiers gave Him while hanging on the Cross vinegar mingled with gall(462). This He tasted, but declined to drink. At the end of six hours, He cried, "I thirst": whereupon one of the soldiers ran, filled a sponge with vinegar, and gave Him to drink by offering the sponge up to His mouth secured to the summit of the reed of aspersion: whereby (as St. John significantly remarks) it covered the bunch of ceremonial hyssop which was used for sprinkling the people(463). This time He drank; and exclaimed, "It is finished."
