The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark

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THE CODEX

"MY WORD WILL NOT PASS AWAY"

DEDICATION: TO SIR ROUNDELL PALMER, Q.C., M.P.

PREFACE.

THE LAST TWELVE VERSES.

CHAPTER I. THE CASE OF THE LAST TWELVE VERSES OF S. MARK'S GOSPEL, STATED.

CHAPTER II. THE HOSTILE VERDICT OF BIBLICAL CRITICS SHEWN TO BE QUITE OF RECENT DATE.

CHAPTER III. THE EARLY FATHERS APPEALED TO, AND OBSERVED TO BEAR FAVOURABLE WITNESS.

CHAPTER IV. THE EARLY VERSIONS EXAMINED, AND FOUND TO YIELD UNFALTERING TESTIMONY TO THE GENUINENESS OF THESE VERSES.

CHAPTER V. THE ALLEGED HOSTILE WITNESS OF CERTAIN OF THE EARLY FATHERS PROVED TO BE AN IMAGINATION OF THE CRITICS.

CHAPTER VI. MANUSCRIPT TESTIMONY SHEWN TO BE OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOUR OF THESE VERSES.--PART I.

CHAPTER VII. MANUSCRIPT TESTIMONY SHEWN TO BE OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOUR OF THESE VERSES.--PART II.

CHAPTER VIII. THE PURPORT OF ANCIENT SCHOLIA, AND NOTES IN MSS. ON THE SUBJECT OF THESE VERSES, SHEWN TO BE THE REVERSE OF WHAT IS COMMONLY SUPPOSED.

CHAPTER IX. INTERNAL EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATED TO BE THE VERY REVERSE OF UNFAVOURABLE TO THESE VERSES.

CHAPTER X. THE TESTIMONY OF THE LECTIONARIES SHEWN TO BE ABSOLUTELY DECISIVE AS TO THE GENUINENESS OF THESE VERSES.

CHAPTER XI. THE OMISSION OF THESE TWELVE VERSES IN CERTAIN ANCIENT COPIES OF THE GOSPELS, EXPLAINED AND ACCOUNTED FOR.

CHAPTER XII. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE QUESTION: SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE; AND CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE SUBJECT.

APPENDIX (A). On the importance of attending to Patristic Citations of Scripture.--The correct Text of S. LUKE ii. 14, established.

APPENDIX (B). EUSEBIUS "ad Marinum" concerning the reconcilement of S. Mark xvi. 9 with S. Matthew xxviii. 1.

APPENDIX (C). Proof that HESYCHIUS is a copyist only in what he says concerning the end of S. Mark's Gospel.

APPENDIX (D). Some account of VICTOR OF ANTIOCH'S Commentary on S. Mark's Gospel; together with an enumeration of MSS. which contain Victor's Work.

APPENDIX (E). Text of the concluding Scholion of VICTOR OF ANTIOCH'S Commentary on S. Mark's Gospel; in which Victor bears emphatic testimony to the genuineness of "the last Twelve Verses."

APPENDIX (F). On the Relative antiquity of the CODEX VATICANUS (B), and the CODEX SINAITICUS ({HEBREW LETTER ALEF}).

APPENDIX (G). On the so-called "AMMONIAN SECTIONS" and "EUSEBIAN CANONS."

APPENDIX (H). On the Interpolation of the text of CODEX B and CODEX {HEBREW LETTER ALEF} at S. MATTHEW xxvii. 48 or 49.

POSTSCRIPT.

L'ENVOY

GENERAL INDEX.

FOOTNOTES

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