r they were afraid.' In some copies, however, this also
is added,--'Now when He was risen,' &c. This, however, seems to
contradict to some extent what was before delivered," &c.

It may sound fabulous, but it is strictly true, that every word of this,
(unsuspiciously adopted as it has been by _every Critic_ who has since
gone over the same ground,) is a mere tissue of mistakes. For first,--Cod.
23 contains _nothing whatever pertinent to the present inquiry_. (Scholz,
evidently through haste and inadvertence, has confounded _his own_ "23"
with "_Coisl._ 23," but "Coisl. 23" is his "39,"--of which by-and-by. This
reference therefore has to be cancelled.)--Cod. 41 contains a scholion of
_precisely the opposite tendency_: I mean, a scholion which avers that
_the accurate copies of S. Mark's Gospel contain these last twelve
verses_. (Scholz borrowed this wrong reference from Wetstein,--who, by an
oversight, quotes Cod. 41 three times instead of twice.)--There remain but
Codd. 34 and 39; and in neither of those two manuscripts, from the first
page of S. Mark's Gospel to the last, does there exist _any _"scholion of
Severus of Antioch"_ whatever_. Scholz, in a word, has inadvertently made
a gross misstatement;(208) and every Critic who has since written on this
subject has adopted his words,--without acknowledgment and without
examination.... Such is the evidence on which it is proposed to prove that
S. Mark did not write the last twelve verses of his Gospel!

(7.) Scholz proceeds to enumerate the following twenty-two Codices:--24,
34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 108, 129, 137, 138, 143, 181, 186, 195, 199,
206, 209, 210, 221, 222. And this imposing catalogue is what has misled
Tischendorf, Tregelles and the rest. They have not perceived that it is _a
mere transcript of Griesbach's list_; which Scholz interrupts only to give
from Cod. 24, (imperfectly and at second-hand,) the weighty scholion,
(Wetstein had given it from Cod. 41,) which relates, on the authority of
an eye-witness, that S. Mark xvi. 9-20 existed in the ancient Palestinian
Copy. (About that Scholion enough has been offered already.(209)) Scholz
adds that very nearly the same words are found in 374.--What he says
concerning 206 and 209 (and he might have added 199,) has been explained
above.

But when the twenty MSS. which remain(210) undisposed of have been
scrutinized, their testimony is found to be quite different from what is
commonly supposed. One of