3 the sentence, 'Many were created but few shall be saved' [Endnote 71:2].

Our author spends several pages in the attempt to prove that this is the original of the quotation in Barnabas and not the saying in St.
Matthew.

We have the usual positiveness of statement: 'There can be no doubt that the sense of the reading in 4 Ezra is exactly that of the Epistle.' 'It is impossible to imagine a saying more irrelevant to its context than "Many are called but few chosen" in Matt.xx.

16,' where it is indeed spurious, though the relevancy of it might very well be maintained.

In Matt.xxii.14, where the saying is genuine, 'it is clear that the facts distinctly contradict the moral that "few are chosen."' When we come to a passage with a fixed idea it is always easy to get out of it what we wish to find.