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Mat 9:4. Εἰδὼς, knowing) Besides many Greek codices, which Mill first began to notice on this passage, the Gothic version and the margin of Courcelles reads thus.-ἰδὼν[394] appears to have been introduced by some persons from Mat 9:2. St Mark and St Luke have ἐπιγνοὺς in the parallel passages. Thus too we find ΕἸΔῺς in ch. Mat 12:25.-ὙΜΕῖς, you) The pronoun is expressed for the sake of emphasis.[395]
[394] Lachmann reads εἰδῶς with B, Goth. Vers, and probably a. Dbc and Rec. Text read ἰδὼν. Vulg. “Cum vidisset.”-ED.
[395] Often one, whilst he is arraigning others for their sins, is sinning himself. And indeed the most heinous sins can be committed even in the heart alone.-V. g.