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94 133. The clearest evidence for this purpose, as we have already seen (§ 62), is furnished by conflate readings, where they exist; and in the case of some of the primary groupings of the textual documents of the New Testament they are fortunately not wanting. Before proceeding however to examine some examples of this kind, it may be well to notice a few illustrations of the phenomenon of 'conflation' in its simpler form, as exhibited by single documents. Here and always we shall use the ordinary notation, unless there is sufficient reason for departing from it: a list of special symbols and abbreviations employed is given in the Appendix. In Acts vi 8, where the two readings and  are attested each by a plurality of documents, E2 alone combines them, by means of a conjunction, reading. In Mark vi 56 the Latin MS a couples the readings and  by a conjunction, and slightly modifies them, reading in foro et in plateis. In John v 37 D makes out of  and  without a conjunction, and similarly John xiii 24 stands in one principal text as  in another as, while  adds one form to the other, merely changing a tense, and reads. In 1 Cor. x 19 the readings and, or their Latin equivalents, are ingeniously interwoven by fuld. as. Luke xvi 30