a prophecy of Zechariah by name, connects it with the name of Jeremiah. Many have maintained that Matthew had in his original text Ζριου (Ζαχαρίου) but an early copyist mistook it for Ιριου (Ἱερεμίου). Wright gives the sufficient refutation to this attempted solution. He notes that such contractions do not occur in the oldest MSS.25 The best solution appears to us to be that of Lightfoot (so Scrivener also). The Talmudic tradition shows that the prophetic writings in the order of their place in