(3.) In short, here are three claimants for the authorship of one and the same Homily. To whichever of the three we assign it,—(and competent judges have declared that there are sufficient reasons for giving it to Hesychius rather than to Severus,—while _no one_ is found to suppose that Gregory of Nyssa was its author,)—_who_ will not admit that no further mention must be made of the other two? (4.) Let it be clearly understood, therefore, that henceforth the name of “Gregory of Nyssa” must be banished from this discussion. So must the name of “Severus of Antioch.” The memorable passage which begins,—“In the more accurate copies, the Gospel according to Mark has its end at ‘for they were afraid,’ ”—is found in _a Homily which was probably written by Hesychius, presbyter of Jerusalem,—a writer of the vi_th_ century_. I shall have to recur to his work by-and-by. The next name is EUSEBIUS, II. With respect to whom the case is altogether different. What that learned Father has delivered concerning the conclusion of S. Mark’s Gospel requires to be examined with attention, and must be set forth much more in detail. And yet, I will so far anticipate what is about to be offered, as to say at once that if any one supposes that Eusebius has anywhere plainly “stated that it is _wanted in many MSS._,”(74)—he is mistaken. Eusebius nowhere says so. The reader’s attention is invited to a plain tale. It was not until 1825 that the world was presented by Cardinal Angelo Mai(75) with a few fragmentary specimens of a lost work of Eusebius on the (so-called) Inconsistencies in the Gospels, from a MS. in the Vatican.(76) These, the learned Cardinal republished more accurately in 1847, in his “Nova Patrum Bibliotheca;”(77) and hither we are invariably referred by those who cite Eusebius as a witness against the genuineness of the concluding verses of the second Gospel.