On the other hand, the evidence _in favour_ of the
place is despatched in less than twelve lines. What can be the reason that
an Editor of the New Testament parades elaborately every particular of the
evidence, (such as it is,) _against_ the genuineness of a considerable
portion of the Gospel; and yet makes summary work with the evidence in its
favour? That Tischendorf has at least entirely made up his mind on the
matter in hand is plain. Elsewhere, he speaks of the Author of these
verses as "_Pseudo Marcus_."(15)

2. Dr. Tregelles has expressed himself most fully on this subject in his
"Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament" (1854). The
respected author undertakes to shew "that the early testimony that S. Mark
did not write these verses is confirmed by existing monuments."
Accordingly, he announces as the result of the propositions which he
thinks he has established, "that the _book of Mark himself_ extends no
further than {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}." He is the only critic I have met with to whom
it does not seem incredible that S. Mark did actually conclude his Gospel
in this abrupt way: observing that "perhaps we do not know enough of the
circumstances of S. Mark when he wrote his Gospel to say whether he did or
did not leave it with a complete termination." In this modest suggestion
at least Dr. Tregelles is unassailable, since we know absolutely nothing
whatever about "the circumstances of S. Mark," (or of any other
Evangelist,) "when he wrote his Gospel:" neither indeed are we quite sure
_who_ S. Mark _was_. But when he goes on to declare, notwithstanding,
"that the remaining twelve verses, by whomsoever written, have a full
claim to be received as an authentic part of the second Gospel;" and
complains that "there is in some minds a kind of timidity with regard to
Holy Scripture, as if all our notions of its authority depended on our
knowing who was the writer of each particular portion; instead of simply
seeing and owning that it was given forth from GOD, and that it is as much
His as were the Commandments of the Law written by His own finger on the
tables of