[Footnote 35: Basnage, in his Histoire de l'Eglise, a work
of controversy, (tom l. p. 505,) justifies the mother, by
the blood, of God, (Acts, xx. 28, with Mill's various
readings.) But the Greek Mss. are far from unanimous; and
the primitive style of the blood of Christ is preserved in
the Syriac version, even in those copies which were used by
the Christians of St. Thomas on the coast of Malabar, (La
Croze, Christianisme des Indes, tom. i. p. 347.) The
jealousy of the Nestorians and Monophysites has guarded the
purity of their text.]