SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}.(205)

And the whole of this statement is complacently copied by _all_ subsequent
Critics and Editors,--cross, and "{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}," and all,--as an additional ancient
attestation to the fact that "_The End_" ({~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}) _of S. Mark's Gospel_ is
indeed at ch. xvi. 8. Strange,--incredible rather,--that among so many
learned persons, not one should have perceived that "{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}" in this place
merely denotes that here _a well-known Ecclesiastical section comes to an
end_!... As far, therefore, as the present discussion is concerned, the
circumstance is purely irrelevant;(206) and, (as I propose to shew in
Chapter XI,) the less said about it by the opposite party, the better.

(5.) Scholz further states that in four, (he means three,) other Codices
very nearly the same colophon as the preceding recurs, with an important
additional clause. In Codd. 1, 199, 206, 209, (he says) is read,--

"In certain of the copies, the Evangelist finishes here; _up to which
place Eusebius the friend of Pamphilus canonized_. In other copies,
however, is found as follows."(207) And then comes the rest of S. Mark's
Gospel.

I shall have more to say about this reference to Eusebius, and what he
"canonized," by-and-by. But what is there in all this, (let me in the
meantime ask), to recommend the opinion that the Gospel of S. Mark was
published by its Author in an incomplete state; or that the last twelve
verses of it are of spurious origin?

(6.) The reader's attention is specially invited to the imposing statement
which follows. Codd. 23, 34, 39, 41, (says Scholz,) "contain these words
of Severus of Antioch:--

"In the more accurate copies, the Gospel according to Mark has its
end at 'fo