It hardly seems necessary to give the passage in full, as this is already done in 'Supernatural Religion,' and it does not differ materially from that first quoted, except that it is less complicated and the supposition of a quotation from memory somewhat easier.

The critic indeed dismisses the question summarily enough.

He says that 'the slightest comparison of the passage with our Gospels is sufficient to convince any unprejudiced mind that it is neither a combination of texts nor a quotation from memory' [Endnote 66:1].

But this very confident assertion is only the result of the hasty and superficial examination that the author has given to the facts.

He has set down the impression that a modern might receive, at the first blush, without having given any more extended study to the method of the patristic quotations.