that their memory is in fault, as their judgment,—in that they evidently hold themselves at liberty to paraphrase, to recast, to reconstructe. I. Thus, it is impossible to resist the inference that PAPIAS refers to S. Mark 16:18 when he records a marvellous tradition concerning “Justus surnamed Barsabas,” “how that after drinking noxious poison, through the LORD’S grace he experienced no evil consequencef.” He does not give the words of the Evangelist. It is even surprising how completely he passes