that with no ordinary warmth, no common acuteness, he insisted on their genuineness. “With Griesbach,” (remarks Dr. Tregellesb,) “Texts which may be called really critical begin;” and Griesbach is the first to insist that the concluding verses of S. Mark are spurious. That he did not suppose the second Gospel to have always ended at verse 8, we have seen alreadyc. He was of opinion, however, that “at some very remote period, the original ending of the Gospel perished,—disappeared perhaps from the