[2] Comp. Ignatius, _Magn._ X.; Irenæus, _Hær._ I. x. 1, 2; III. iv. 2; V. xx. 1; Clement of Alexandria, _Strom._ VI., _sub-finem_; Tertullian, _Apol._ i., xxxvii.; _Adv. Judæos_, vii., xii., etc., etc. [3] It has been remarked that this play upon words (_fel_ and _mel_), which cannot be reproduced in English, is an argument against the theory of a Greek original. [4] In the _Codex Sinaiticus_ and some other authorities the Pauline Epistles are placed immediately after the Gospels, an arrangement which probably had its origin in the fact that for many early Christians these two groups constituted their New Testament. Among versions the Memphitic and the Thebaic have this order. [5] It is omitted by Giles and other editors, but is given by Cave, in his _Historia Literaria_ (I., p. 475), who says that it comes from an ancient MS. in the Library of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. [6] Westcott _On the Canon_, pp. 362, 417, 3rd Ed. [7] Westcott and Hort, II., p. 321; Scrivener, _Introduction to the Criticism of the N.T._ pp. 70, 74, 3rd Ed. _THE EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES._ CHAPTER II. _THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE EPISTLE OF ST. JAMES._ "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ."--JAS. i. 1. The question of the authenticity of this Epistle resolves itself into two parts--Is the Epistle the genuine product of a writer of the Apostolic age? if so, which of the persons of the Apostolic age who bore the name of James is the author of it? In answering the former of these two questions it is important to put it in the proper way. We have done a good deal towards the solution of a problem when we have learned to state it correctly; and the way in which we ought to approach the problem of the genuineness of this and other books of the New Testament is not, Why should we believe that these writings are what they profess to be? but, Why should we _refuse_ to believe this? Have we any sufficient reason for reversing the decision of the fourth and fifth centuries, which possessed far more evidence on the question than has come down to us?