In reconstructing the primitive lost Gospel of the Nazarenes, it is very necessary to note these Gnostic passages, and to withdraw them from the text. We shall come to some more of their additions and alterations presently. It is sufficient for us to note here that the heretical Gospel in use among the Gnostic Ebionites was based on the orthodox Gospel of the Hebrews. The existence of these two versions explains the very different treatment their Gospel meets with at the hands of the Fathers of the Church. Some, and these the earliest, speak of this Gospel with reverence, and place it almost on a line with the Canonical Gospels; others speak of it with horror, as an heretical corruption of the Gospel of St. Matthew. The former saw the primitive text, the latter the curtailed and amplified version in use among the heretical Ebionites. St. Paul, in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, alludes to one of the appearances of our Lord after his resurrection, of which no mention is made in the Canonical Gospels: “After that, he was seen of James.”(216) But according to his account, this appearance took place after several other manifestations, viz. after that to Cephas, that to the Twelve, and that to five hundred brethren at once. But it preceded another appearance to “all the apostles.” If we take the first and second to have occurred on Easter‐day, and the last to have been the appearance to them again “after eight days,” when St. Thomas was present, then the appearance to St. James must have taken place between the “even” of Easter‐day and Low Sunday. Now the Gospel of the Hebrews gives a particular account of this visit to James, which however, according to this account, took place early on Easter‐day, certainly before Christ stood in the midst of the apostles in the upper room on Easter‐evening. St. Jerome says, “The Gospel according to the Hebrews relates that after the resurrection of the Saviour, ‘_The Lord, after he had given the napkin to the servant of the priest, went to James, and appeared to him. Now James had sworn with an oath that he would not eat bread from that hour when he drank the cup of the Lord, till he should behold him rising from amidst them that sleep._’ And again, a little after, ‘_The Lord said, Bring a table and bread_.’ And then, ‘_He took bread and blessed and brake, and gave it to James the Just, and said unto __ him, My brother, eat thy bread, for the Son of Man is risen from among them that sleep._’ ”(217) This touching incident is quite in keeping with what we know about St. James, the Lord’s brother.