ds other branches flourishing and
fruitful; even so the same thing happens to us. For the vine planted
by God and Christ the Saviour is His People." (Dial. ch. cx.)

Again, St. John alone represents our Saviour as saying, "I have power to
lay [my life] down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment
have I received of my Father." (John x. 18) And Justin says of Christ
that, in fulfilment of a certain prophecy,--

"He is to do something worthy of praise and wonderment, being about
to rise again from the dead on the third day after the Crucifixion,
and this He has obtained from the Father." (Dial. ch. c.)

Some of these last instances which I have given are reminiscences rather
than reproductions; but like all other reminiscences they imply things
remembered, sometimes not perfectly correctly, and so not applied as
applied in the original; but they are all real reminiscences of words
and things to be found only in our fourth Gospel.

SECTION X.

THE PRINCIPAL WITNESS.--HIS TESTIMONY SUMMED UP.

From all this it is clear that Justin had not only seen and reverenced
St. John's Gospel, but that his mind was permeated with its peculiar
teaching.

I hesitate not to say that, if a man rejects the evidence above adduced,
he rejects it because on other grounds he is determined, cost what it
may, to discredit the Fourth Gospel.

Let us briefly recapitulate.

Justin reproduced the doctrine of the Logos, using the words of St.
John. He asserted the Divine and human natures of the Son of God in the
words of St. John, or in exactly similar words. He reproduced that
peculiar teaching of our Lord, to be found only in St. John, whereby we
are enabled to hold the true and essential Godhead of Christ without for
a moment holding that He is an independent God. He reproduced the
doctrine of the Logos being, even before His Incarnation, in _every_ man
as the "true light" to enlighten him.

He reproduces the doctrine of the Sacraments in terms to be found only
in the Fourth Gospel. He reproduces, or alludes to, arguments and types
and prophecies and historical events, only to be found in St. John's
Gospel.

It seems certain, then, that if Justin was acquainted with any one of
our four Gospels, that Gospel was the one according to St. John.

What answer, the reader will ask, does the author of "Supernatural
Religion" give to all this? Why, he simply ignores the greater part of
these reference