;--also concerning Hesychius of Jerusalem, (or else Severus of
Antioch) (p. 57);--and concerning Victor of Antioch (p. 59).

It would naturally follow to shew that manuscript evidence confirms the
evidence of the ancient Fathers and of the early Versions of Scripture.
But it will be more satisfactory that I should proceed to examine without
more delay the testimony, which, (as it is alleged,) is borne by a cloud
of ancient Fathers against the last twelve verses of S. Mark. "The absence
of this portion from some, from many, or from most copies of his Gospel,
or that it was not written by S. Mark himself," (says Dr. Tregelles,) "is
attested by Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, Victor of Antioch, Severus of
Antioch, Jerome, and by later writers, especially Greeks."(67) The same
Fathers are appealed to by Dr. Davidson, who adds to the list Euthymius;
and by Tischendorf and Alford, who add the name of Hesychius of Jerusalem.
They also refer to "many ancient Scholia." "These verses" (says
Tischendorf) "are not recognised by the sections of Ammonius nor by the
Canons of Eusebius: Epiphanius and Caesarius bear witness to the fact."(68)
"In the Catenae on Mark" (proceeds Davidson) "the section is not explained.
Nor is there any trace of acquaintance with it on the part of Clement of
Rome or Clement of Alexandria;"--a remark which others have made also; as
if it were a surprising circumstance that Clement of Alexandria, who
appears to have no reference to the last chapter of _S. Matthew's_ Gospel,
should be also without any reference to the last chapter of _S. Mark's_:
as if, too, it were an extraordinary thing that Clement of Rome should
have omitted to quote from the last chapter of S. Mark,--seeing that the
same Clement does not quote from S. Mark's Gospel _at all_.... The
alacrity displayed by learned writers in accumulating hostile evidence, is
certainly worthy of a better cause. Strange, that their united industry
should have been attended with such very unequal success when their object
was to exhibit the evidence _in favour of_ the present portion of
Scripture.

(1) Eusebius then, and (2) Jerome; (3) Gregory of Nyssa and (4) Hesychius
of Jerusalem; (5) Severus of Antioch, (6) Victor of Antioch, and (7)
Euthymius:--Do the accomplished critics just quoted,--Doctors Tischendorf,
Tregelles, and Davidson, really mean to tell us that "it is attested" by
these seven Fathers that the concluding section of S. Mark's Gospel "was
no