This same particle ({ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}) has led to an extraordinary amount of confusion in another place, where its idiomatic propriety has evidently been neither felt nor understood,--viz. in St. Luke xviii. 14. "This man" (says our LORD) "went down to his house justified rather than" ({ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PSILI AND VARIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}) "the other." Scholars recognize here an exquisitely idiomatic expression, which in fact obtains so universally in the Traditional Text that its genuineness is altogether above suspicion. It is vouched for by 16 uncials headed by A, and by the cursives in the proportion of 500 to 1. The Complutensian has it, of course: and so would the Textus Receptus have it, if Erasmus had followed his MS.: but "_praefero_" (he says) "_quod est usitatius apud probos autores_." Uncongenial as the expression is to the other languages of antiquity, { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH PSILI AND VARIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} is faithfully retained in the Gothic and in the Harkleian Version(280). Partly however, because it is of very rare occurrence and was therefore not understood(281), and partly because when written in uncials it easily got perverted into something else, the expression has met with a strange fate. { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO~} is found to have suggested, or else to have been mistaken for, both { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO~}(282) and { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER UPSILON~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO~}(283). The prevailing expedient however was, to get rid of the { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA~}--to turn { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO~} into { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO~},--and, for { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} to write { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}(284). The uncials which exhibit this strange corruption of the text are exclusively that quaternion which have already come so often before us,--viz. B{ ~HEBREW LETTER ALEF~}DL. But D improves upon the blunder of its predecessors by writing, like a Targum, { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK KORONIS~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} (sic), and by adding (with the Old Latin and the Peshitto) { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} { ~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PHI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~},--an exhibition of the text which (it is needless to say) is perfectly unique(285).