ER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}). He
had derived his text from "accurate" ones: ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}.) More
than that: he leads his reader to infer that he had personally resorted to
the famous Palestinian Copy, the text of which was held to exhibit the
inspired verity, and had satisfied himself that the concluding section of
S. Mark's Gospel _was there_. He had, therefore, been either to Jerusalem,
or else to Caesarea; had inquired for those venerable records which had
once belonged to Origen and Pamphilus;(119) and had inspected them.
Testimony more express, more weighty,--I was going to say, more
decisive,--can scarcely be imagined. It may with truth be said to close the
present discussion.

With this, in fact, Victor lays down his pen. So also may I. I submit that
nothing whatever which has hitherto come before us lends the slightest
countenance to the modern dream that S. Mark's Gospel, as it left the
hands of its inspired Author, ended abruptly at ver. 8. Neither Eusebius
nor Jerome; neither Severus of Antioch nor Hesychius of Jerusalem;
certainly not Victor of Antioch; least of all Gregory of Nyssa,--yield a
particle of support to that monstrous fancy. The notion is an invention, a
pure imagination of the Critics ever since the days of Griesbach.

It remains to be seen whether the MSS. will prove somewhat less
unaccommodating.

VII. For it can be of no possible avail, at this stage of the discussion,
to appeal to

EUTHYMIUS ZIGABENUS,

the Author of an interesting Commentary, or rather Compilation on the
Gospels, assigned to A.D. 1116. Euthymius lived, in fact, full five
hundred years too late for his testimony to be of the slightest
importance. Such as it is, however, it is not unfavourable. He says,--"Some
of the Commentators state that here," (viz. at ver. 8,) "the Gospel
according to Mark finishes; and that what follows is a spurious addition."
(Which clea