38-- occur.

I had intended to pursue the investigation through these resemblances, but it seems superfluous to carry it further.
It is difficult to see what appeal can be made against evidence such as this.

A certain allowance should indeed be made for possible errors of computation, and some of the points may have been wrongly entered, though care has been taken to put down nothing that was not verified by its preponderating presence in the Lucan writings, and especially by its presence in that portion of the Gospel which Marcion undoubtedly received.

But as a rule the method applies itself mechanically, and when every deduction has been made, there will still remain a mass of evidence that it does not seem too much to describe as overwhelming.
(4.) We may assume, then, that there is definite proof that the Gospel used by Marcion presupposes our present St.Luke, in its complete form, as it has been handed down to us.

But when once this assumption has been made, another set of considerations comes in, which also carry with them an important inference.