III. The supposed resemblance of the opened volume to an Egyptian papyrus,—when eight columns (σελίδες) are exhibited to the eye at once, side by side,—seems to be a fallacious note of high antiquity. If Cod. א has four columns in a page,—Cod. B three,—Cod. A two,—Cod. C has only one. But Cod. C is certainly as old as Cod. A. Again, Cod. D, which is of the vith century, is written (like Cod. C) across the page: yet was it “copied from an older model similarly divided in respect to the lines or verses,”—and therefore similarly written across the page. It is almost obvious that the size of the skins on which a Codex was written will have decided whether the columns should be four or only three in a page. IV. In fine, nothing doubting the high antiquity of both Codices, (B and א,) I am nevertheless fully persuaded that an interval of at least half a century,—if not of a far greater span of years,—is absolutely required to account for the marked dissimilarity between them. APPENDIX (G). On the so-called “AMMONIAN SECTIONS” and “EUSEBIAN CANONS.” (Referred to at p. 130.) I. That the Sections (popularly miscalled “_Ammonian_”) with which EUSEBIUS [A.D. 320] has made the world thoroughly familiar, and of which some account was given above (pp. 127-8), cannot be the same which AMMONIUS of Alexandria [A.D. 220] employed,—but must needs be the invention of EUSEBIUS himself,—admits of demonstration. On this subject, external testimony is altogether insecure.(542) The only safe appeal is to the Sections themselves. 1. The Call of the Four Apostles is described by the first three Evangelists, within the following limits of their respective Gospels:—S. Matthew iv. 18-22: S. Mark i. 16-20: S. Luke (with the attendant miraculous draught of fishes,) v. 1-11. Now, these three portions of narrative are observed to be dealt with in the sectional system of EUSEBIUS after the following extraordinary fashion: (the fourth column represents the Gospel according to S. John):— (1.) § 29, (v. 1-3) (2.) § 20, (iv. § 9, (i. 17, 18) 14-1/2-16) (3.) § 30, (v. 4-7) § 219, (xxi. 1-6) (4.) § 30 (v. 4-7) § 222, (xxi. 11) (5.) § 31, (v. 8-10-1/2) (6.) § 21, (iv. § 10, (i. 17, § 32, (v. 19, 20) 18) 10-1/2, 11) (7.) § 22, (iv. § 11, (i. 19, 21, 22) 20)