“In certain of the copies, the Evangelist finishes here; _up to which place Eusebius the friend of Pamphilus canonized_. In other copies, however, is found as follows.”(207) And then comes the rest of S. Mark’s Gospel. I shall have more to say about this reference to Eusebius, and what he “canonized,” by-and-by. But what is there in all this, (let me in the meantime ask), to recommend the opinion that the Gospel of S. Mark was published by its Author in an incomplete state; or that the last twelve verses of it are of spurious origin? (6.) The reader’s attention is specially invited to the imposing statement which follows. Codd. 23, 34, 39, 41, (says Scholz,) “contain these words of Severus of Antioch:— “In the more accurate copies, the Gospel according to Mark has its end at ‘for they were afraid.’ In some copies, however, this also is added,—‘Now when He was risen,’ &c. This, however, seems to contradict to some extent what was before delivered,” &c. It may sound fabulous, but it is strictly true, that every word of this, (unsuspiciously adopted as it has been by _every Critic_ who has since gone over the same ground,) is a mere tissue of mistakes. For first,—Cod. 23 contains _nothing whatever pertinent to the present inquiry_. (Scholz, evidently through haste and inadvertence, has confounded _his own_ “23” with “_Coisl._ 23,” but “Coisl. 23” is his “39,”—of which by-and-by. This reference therefore has to be cancelled.)—Cod. 41 contains a scholion of _precisely the opposite tendency_: I mean, a scholion which avers that _the accurate copies of S. Mark’s Gospel contain these last twelve verses_. (Scholz borrowed this wrong reference from Wetstein,—who, by an oversight, quotes Cod. 41 three times instead of twice.)—There remain but Codd. 34 and 39; and in neither of those two manuscripts, from the first page of S. Mark’s Gospel to the last, does there exist _any _“scholion of Severus of Antioch”_ whatever_. Scholz, in a word, has inadvertently made a gross misstatement;(208) and every Critic who has since written on this subject has adopted his words,—without acknowledgment and without examination.... Such is the evidence on which it is proposed to prove that S. Mark did not write the last twelve verses of his Gospel!