~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH VARIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ZETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~},
the reference must needs be to S. Mark xvi. 19.

V. At the Seventh COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE held under Cyprian, A.D. 256, (on
the baptizing of Heretics,) Vincentius, Bishop of Thibari, (a place not
far from Carthage,) in the presence of the eighty-seven assembled African
bishops, quoted two of the verses under consideration;(38) and Augustine,
about a century and a half later, in his reply, recited the words
afresh.(39)

VI. The Apocryphal ACTA PILATI (sometimes called the "Gospel of
Nicodemus") Tischendorf assigns without hesitation to the iiird century;
whether rightly or wrongly I have no means of ascertaining. It is at all
events a very ancient forgery, and it contains the 15th, 16th, 17th and
18th verses of this chapter.(40)

VII. This is probably the right place to mention that ver. 15 is clearly
alluded to in two places of the (so-called) "APOSTOLICAL
CONSTITUTIONS;"(41) and that verse 16 is quoted (with no variety of
reading from the _Textus Receptus_(42)) in an earlier part of the same
ancient work. The "Constitutions" are assigned to the iiird or the ivth
century.(43)

VIII and IX. It will be shewn in Chapter V. that EUSEBIUS, the
Ecclesiastical Historian, was profoundly well acquainted with these
verses. He discusses them largely, and (as I shall prove in the chapter
referred to) was by no means disposed to question their genuineness. His
Church History was published A.D. 325.

MARINUS also, (whoever that individual may have b