Note 285 — CRITICAL NOTES ON VARIOUS PASSAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. (continued 2)

In his Lucian Lagarde gives examples of his being deceived by certain letters shining through from the opposite side—e.g. Esther v. 22 and 27. This latter is a most interesting case. The following verse begins with μη, and Lagarde thought that the first scribe had added another μη by mistake and afterwards erased it, whereas it turned out that what he took to be ΜΗ was nothing else than ΗΝ shining through from the other side.