value of Victor's work,
must be admitted entirely to change the character of his supposed
evidence. He comes before us rather in the light of a Compiler than of an
Author: his work is rather a "Catena" than a Commentary: and as such in
fact it is generally described. Quite plain is it, at all events, that the
sentiments contained in the sections last referred to, are _not Victor's
at all_. For one half of them, no one but Chrysostom is responsible: for
the other half, no one but Eusebius.

But it is Victor's familiar use of the writings of Eusebius,--especially of
those Resolutions of hard Questions "concerning the seeming
Inconsistencies in the Evangelical accounts of the Resurrection," which
Eusebius addressed to Marinus,--on which the reader's attention is now to
be concentrated. Victor cites that work of Eusebius _by name_ in the very
_first_ page of his Commentary. That his _last_ page also contains a
quotation from it, (also _by name_), has been already pointed out.(109)
Attention is now invited to what is found concerning S. Mark xvi. 9-20 in
the _last page but one_ (p. 444) of Victor's work. It shall be given in
English; because I will convince unlearned as well as learned readers.
Victor, (after quoting four lines from the 89th Homily of
Chrysostom(110)), reconciles (exactly as Eusebius is observed to do(111))
the notes of time contained severally in S. Matth. xxviii. 1, S. Mark xvi.
2, S. Luke xxiv. 1, and S. John xx. 1. After which, he proceeds as
follows:--

"In certain copies of Mark's Gospel, next comes,--'Now when [JESUS] was
risen early the first day of the week, He appeared to Mary Magdalene;'--a
statement which seems inconsistent with Matthew's narrative. This might be
met by asserting, that the conclusion of Mark's Gospel, though found in
certain copies, is spurious, However, that we may not seem to betake
ourselves to an off-hand answer, we propose to read the place thus:--'Now
when [JESUS] was risen:' then, after a comma, to go on,--'early the first
day of the week He appeared to Mary Magdalene.' In this way we refer
[Mark's] 'Now when [JESUS] was risen' to Matthew's 'in the end of the
sabbath,' (for _then_ we believe Him to have _risen_;) and all that comes
after, expressive as it is of a different notion, we connect with what
follows. Mark relates that He who '_arose_ (according to Matthew) _in the
end of the Sabbath_,' _was seen_ by Mary Magdalene '_early_.' This is in
fact what John also decla