ii. The exemplar whence these numbers were derived, differed

considerably from that which the text follows. For, in some cases, the sectional numbers indicate the presence of passages which are absent from the text. E.g. St. Matt. xvi. 2, 3, which is sect. 162, is wanting; and 162 is assigned to ver. 4, while the wrong canon (5 for 6) betrays the presence in the canonizer’s exemplar of the passage omitted by the scribe. The same is true of St. Mark xv. 28 (in which case the scribe is “D”).