by addition or subtraction). ‘Therefore it is not surprising’, he goes on, ‘that some have dared to falsify even the dominical scriptures, when they have plotted against writings so inferior to these.’20 The ‘dominical scriptures’ could be gospels or other New Testament writings, but they might conceivably be the Old Testament writings, especially those passages which were used as ‘testimonies’ concerning Christ. About the same time the Palestinian Christian Hegesippus could report after his journeys