Cod. Beratinus or Evan. Φ, Matt. xxvi. 19-20: ως συνεταξεν | αυτοις ϊς και ητοιμασαν το | πασχα; | Οψιας δε γενομενης ανε|κειτο μετα των | δωδεκα μαθη|των; και αισθι|. Observe the reference given for the paragraph to the Ammonian section and Eusebian canon on the left: σοθ = 279, δ = 4. The MS. is written in two columns, and the initial letters of each line are exhibited on the right, with _Am._ and _Eus._, σπα = 279, and β = 2; which as in the other case are in a different hand. ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. Pages 1-224, _passim_, for reasons given in Vol. II. 96 note, _for_ Memphitic _read_ Bohairic; _for_ Thebaic _read_ Sahidic. P. 7, l. 25, _for_ Chapter XI _read_ Chapter XII. P. 14, l. 20, _for_ Chapter X _read_ Chapter XI. P. 87, l. 19, _for_ Synaxaria _read_ Menologies. P. 119, ll. 11 and 12 from bottom, _for_ 93 _read_ 94; _for_ Memoranda in our Addenda _read_ ingenious argument in n. 1. P. 149, Tf Horner, _add_ now in the Bodleian at Oxford. P. 214, l. 3 from bottom, _for_ 464 _read_ iv. 64. P. 224, Evan. 250, l. 3, _for_ p. 144 _read_ p. 150. P. 226, Evan. 274, l. 2 from end, _for_ Chapter IX _read_ Chapter XII. P. 255, l. 6 from bottom, _for_ Bibl. Gr. L. _read_ Bibl. Gr. d. P. 335, l. 1, _for_ 41 _read_ 4. P. 343, l. 12, _for_ Ev. 1 (2) _read_ Ev. 1 (1). CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS. 1. When God was pleased to make known to man His purpose of redeeming us through the death of His Son, He employed for this end the general laws, and worked according to the ordinary course of His Providential government, so far as they were available for the furtherance of His merciful design. A revelation from heaven, in its very notion, implies supernatural interposition; yet neither in the first promulgation nor in the subsequent propagation of Christ’s religion, can we mark any _waste_ of miracles. So far as they were needed for the assurance of honest seekers after truth, they were freely resorted to: whensoever the principles which move mankind in the affairs of common life were adequate to the exigences of the case, more unusual and (as we might have thought) more powerful means of producing conviction were withheld, as at once superfluous and ineffectual. Those who heard not Moses and the prophets would scarcely be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.