And yet the most important circumstance of all cannot be too soon mentioned: viz.

that both alike have experienced the same calamitous treatment at the hands of some critics.

By common consent the most recent editors deny that either set of Verses can have formed part of the Gospel as it proceeded from the hands of its inspired author.

How mistaken is this opinion of theirs in respect of the 'Last twelve verses of the Gospel according to St.Mark,' has been already demonstrated in a separate treatise.

I must be content in this place to deal in a far less ceremonious manner with the hostile verdict of many critics concerning St.John vii.