that it is not proper to criticise persons like Zachary and Elisabeth who are said to have been immaculate ‘in omni vitae conditione,’ for here again the editor notes that one of his copies reads ‘in omni habitatione.’ There can be little doubt as to the correct reading; but here the Sinai text comes to our aid, and solves the problem as to what had been puzzling the Armenian scribes, by telling us that Zachary and Elisabeth were ‘without blame in all their conversation’; the word which we render