them (No. 38) has been cited in error: while the
remaining nineteen are nothing else but copies of _Victor of Antioch's
commentary on S. Mark_,--no less than _sixteen_ of which contain the famous
attestation that in _most of the accurate copies, and in particular the
authentic Palestinian Codex, the last twelve verses of S. Mark's Gospel_
WERE FOUND. (See above, pp. 64 and 65.).... And this exhausts the
evidence.

(8.) So far, therefore, as "Notes" and "Scholia" in MSS. are concerned,
the sum of the matter proves to be simply this:--(_a_) Nine Codices(211)
are observed to contain a note to the effect that the end of S. Mark's
Gospel, though wanting "in some," was yet found "in others,"--"in
many,"--"_in the ancient copies_."

(_b_) Next, four Codices(212) contain subscriptions vouching for the
genuineness of this portion of the Gospel by declaring that those four
Codices had been _collated with approved copies preserved at Jerusalem_.

(_c_) Lastly, sixteen Codices,--(to which, besides that already mentioned
by Scholz,(213) I am able to add at least five others, making twenty-two
in all,(214))--contain a weighty critical scholion asserting categorically
that in "very many" and "accurate copies," specially in the "true
Palestinian exemplar," _these verses had been found by one who seems to
have verified the fact of their existence there for himself_.

(9.) And now, shall I be thought unfair if, on a review of the premisses,
I assert that I do not see a shadow of reason for the imposing statement
which has been adopted by Tischendorf, Tregelles, and the rest, that
"there exist about thirty Codices which state that from the more ancient
and more accurate copies of the Gospel, the last twelve verses of S. Mark
were absent?" I repeat, there is not so much as _one single Codex_ which
contains such a scholion; while twenty-four(215) of those commonly
enumerated state _the exact reverse_.--We may now advance a step: but the
candid reader is invited to admit that hitherto the supposed hostile
evidence is on the contrary entirely _in favour_ of the verses under
discussion. ("I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast
altogether blessed them these three times.")

II. Nothing has been hitherto said about Cod. L.(216) This is the
designation of an uncial MS. of the viiith or ixth century, in the Library
at Paris, chiefly remarkable for the correspondence of its readings with
those of Cod. B and with certain of t