sen:' and then to
proceed,--'Early in the Sabbath He appeared first to Mary Magdalene:' in
order that 'when He was risen' may refer (in conformity with what Matthew
says) to the foregoing season; while 'early' is connected with the
appearance to Mary."(98)--I presume it would be to abuse a reader's
patience to offer any remarks on all this. If a careful perusal of the
foregoing passage does not convince him that Hesychius is here only
reproducing what he had read in Eusebius, nothing that I can say will
persuade him of the fact. The _words_ indeed are by no means the same; but
the sense is altogether identical. He seems to have also known the work of
Victor of Antioch. However, to remove all doubt from the reader's mind
that the work of Eusebius was in the hands of Hesychius while he wrote, I
have printed in two parallel columns and transferred to the Appendix what
must needs be conclusive;(99) for it will be seen that the terms are only
not identical in which Eusebius and Hesychius discuss that favourite
problem with the ancients,--the consistency of S. Matthew's {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PSI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH VARIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} with the {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~} of S. Mark.

It is, however, only needful to read through the Homily in question to see
that it is an attempt to weave into one piece a quantity of foreign and
incongruous materials. It is in fact not a Homily at all, (though it has
been thrown into that form;) but a Dissertation,--into which, Hesychius,
(who is known to have been very curious in questions of that kind(100),)
is observed to introduce solutions of most of those famous difficulties
which cluster round the sepulchre of the world's Redeemer on the morning
of the first Easter Day;(101) and which the ancients seem to have
delighted in discussing,--as, the number of the Marys who visited the
sepulchre; the angelic appearances on the morning of the Resurrection; and
above all the seeming discrepancy, already adverted to, in the Evangelical
notices of the time