writers are dealing with Gentiles,
who have no acquaintance with and attribute no authority to their sacred
books, and therefore they make little or no use of them [275:1]. Thus
the _Apologeticus_ of Tertullian does not contain a single passage from
the New Testament, though his writings addressed to Christians teem with
quotations from our Canonical books. Hence it is not in this extant work
that we should expect to obtain information as to Tatian's Canon of the
Scriptures. Any allusion to them will be purely incidental. As regards
our Synoptical Gospels, the indications in Tatian's Apology are not such
that we can lay much stress on them. But the evidence that he knew and
accepted the Fourth Gospel is beyond the reach of any reasonable doubt.

The passages are here placed side by side:--

TATIAN. | ST JOHN.
|
'God is a Spirit' ([Greek: pneuma ho | 'God is a Spirit' ([Greek: pneuma
Theos]), Sec. 4. | ho Theos]), iv. 24.
|
'And this then is the saying | 'And the light shineth in the
([Greek: to eiremenon]); The | darkness, and the darkness
darkness comprehendeth not the light'| comprehended it not'
([Greek: he skotia to phos ou | ([Greek: kai he skotia auto ou
katalambanei]), Sec. 13. | katelaben]), i. 5.
|
'Follow ye the only God. All things |'All things were made through
have been made by Him, and apart | Him, and apart from Him was
from Him hath been made no one thing'| made no one thing' ([Greek: panta
([Greek: panta hup' autou kai choris | di' autou egeneto kai choris
autou gegonen oude hen]), Sec. 19. | autou egeneteo oude hen]), i. 3.

In the last passage from St John I have stopped at the words [Greek:
oude hen], because the earliest Christian writers universally punctuated
in this way, taking [Greek: ho gegonen k.t.l.] with the following
sentence, 'That which hath been made was life in Him.'

Besides these passages there are other coincidences of exposition, with
which however I need not trouble the reader, as they may fairly be
disputed.

It is difficult to see how any one can resist coincidences like these;
and yet the author of _Supernatural Religion_ does resist them.

The first passage our author has apparently overlooked, for he says
nothing about it. If it had stood alone I shou