^{page 443 note 1} Since writing this note, I have, in a letter to the Spectator (21st Oct.), alleged this, among other Synoptic variations, as instances of apparent confusion, arising from different interpretations of an original Greek tradition by the several Evangelists.

^{page 443 note 2} In Evang. Nicod. A. (ch. xi.) Pilate says to the Jews, ‘ Did you see what happened ? ’ They reply, ‘ It was an eclipse as usual (),’ to which Pilate makes no answer. But codex A assigns to him the following retort, ‘Rascals, is this your general veracity ()? I know that this never took place except at new moon.’

^{page 443 note 3} In the LXX. it means ‘cesso,’ ‘desino,’ i.e. ‘to be backward when help is needed’ Jud. v. 6, 7, ‘vanish away (like smoke)’ Psa. lxvii. (lxviii.) 2: and in many other passages, where it is metaphorically used, it represents some meaning of unexpected feebleness, failing, or desertion, e.g. ‘mentior,’ Isa. Iviii. 11.

^{page 444 note 1} Clem. Alex. Fragm. § 57 (1003, Pott.) sees a connection between θες and ἤλιος, and mentions it in connection with Matt, and Mark's tradition of . Commenting on Ps. xviii. 4, .