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Rh actual arrival at His presence was due to His act, not theirs, for He 'came out' of His retirement in some sequestered nook to meet them. Thus, if we look below the surface, the additional phrase in is found to disarrange the diction and confuse rather than enrich the sense; while according to the clear and exact language of  the fact to which the whole sentence leads up stands emphatically at its close, and there is no premature intrusion of what properly belongs to the next part of the narrative.

139. Accordingly the balance of Internal Evidence of Readings, alike from Transcriptional and from Intrinsic Probability, is decidedly in favour of the derivation of from  and  rather than of  and  from ; so that, as far as can be judged without the aid of other passages, the common original of the documents attesting  and the common original of the documents attesting  must both have been older than the common original of the documents attesting.

140. To examine other passages equally in detail would occupy too much space. For the following similar variations it will for the most part suffice to add but brief comments to the documentary attestation.