De Wette says: "A few others (quotations) presuppose (voraussetzen) the Gospel of Mark,"(1) and he gives them. The first occurs in Hom. ii. 19: "There is a certain Justa(2) amongst us, a Syrophoenician, a Canaantte by race, whose daughter was affected by a sore disease, and who came to our Lord crying out and supplicating that he would heal her daughter. But he being also asked by us, said: 'It is not meet to heal the Gentiles who are like dogs from their using different meats and practices, whilst the table in the kingdom has been granted to the sons of Israel.' But she, hearing this and exchanging her former manner of life for that of the sons of the kingdom, in order that she might, like a dog, partake of the crumbs falling from that same table, obtained, as she desired, healing for her daughter."(3) This is compared with Mark vii. 24--30,(4) as it is the only Gospel which calls the woman a Syrophoenician. The Homily, however, not only calls her so, a very unimportant point, but gives her name as "Justa." {24} If, therefore, it be argued that the mention of her nationality supposes that the author found the fact in his Gospel, and that as we know no other but Mark(1) which gives that information, that he therefore derived it from our second Gospel, the additional mention of the name of "Justa" on the same grounds necessarily points to the use of a Gospel which likewise contained it, which our Gospel does not. Nothing can be more decided than the variation in language throughout this whole passage from the account in Mark, and the reply of Jesus is quite foreign to our Gospels. In Mark (vii. 25) the daughter has "an unclean spirit" [------]; in Matthew (xv. 22) she is "grievously possessed by a devil" [------], but in the Homily she is "affected by a sore disease" [------]. The second Gospel knows nothing of any intercession on the part of the disciples, but Matthew has: "And the disciples came and besought him [------] saying: 'Send her away, for she crieth after us,'"(2) whilst the Homily has merely "being also asked by us," [------] in the sense of intercession in her favour. The second Gospel gives the reply of Jesus as follows: "Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. And she answered and said unto him: 'Yea, Lord, for the dogs also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children. And he said unto her: For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter."(3) The nature of the reply of the woman is, {25}