Logia], 155 n, 160, 163, 171, 172 sq

Magdeburg Centuriators, 65, 66

Malalas; see _John Malalas_

Manes, 81

Mansel, 28

Marcellus of Ancyra, the Logos doctrine of, 87

Marcion;
his date, 81, 116, 213 n;
confused with Cerinthus, 210, 212;
his Gospel, 6 n, 8, 186;
his Canon, 117, 227, 263, 273;
Papias' acquaintance with it, 186;
his attitude towards St Paul, 273;
his high moral character, 119;
his distinctive views, 117 sq;
not alluded to in the Ignatian Epistles, 85;
nor in Polycarp's Epistle, 101, 115, 212;
a supposed allusion considered, 106, 115 sq;
opposed by Justin Martyr, 33;
by Melito, 231;
scene of his heresy, 219, 227, 231;
the question of the Canon raised by it, 219, 225;
his views on the resurrection and judgment, 120

Maries, the four, in Papias the lexicographer, 210 sq

Mark's (St) Gospel;
the account and criticism of Papias, 8, 10, 19, 162 sq, 175 sq,
181, 205 sq;
the motive of Papias' allusion, 207;
compared by Papias with the Fourth Gospel, 165, 205 sq;
identification of Papias' St Mark, 2, 10, 20, 46, 163 sq;
evidence of the Muratorian Canon to, 189, 205 sq

Marseilles, 252

_Martyrdom of Polycarp_; see _Polycarp, Martyrdom of_

Massuet, 98 n

Matthew (St), and Papias, 143, 193

Matthew's (St) Gospel;
the account in Papias, 163, 167 sq, 181;
his testimony to the Hebrew original, 168, 172;
its character, 170 sq;
a Greek St Matthew in existence in his day, 168 sq;
identical with the extant Gospel, 169 sq;
relation of the Hebrew to the Greek Gospel, 170;
confused with the _Gospel according to the Hebrews_, by Jerome, 285;
perhaps by Papias, 170;
motive of Papias' allusion, 208;
quoted in the Epistle of Barnabas as 'Scripture,' 227

Meletius, confused with Melito, 231

Melito;
his date, 223, 224;
a contemporary of Polycarp and Papias, 224;
perhaps one of the elders quoted in Irenaeus, 196 n, 224;
perhaps a teacher of Clement of Alexandria, 218, 224;
his travels, 224, 226;
his learning, 228;
his orthodoxy, 230;
range of his literary works, 32, 102, 224;
their popularity, 102, 224, 230;
his lost works, 223, 225, 229;
his _Apology_, 223, 241 n;
the preface to his _Selections_, 226;
(1) the extant Greek fragments, their genuineness, 228 sq;
supported by the evidence of Tertullian and Hippolytus to his
style, 229 sq, 234;
not the work of Meletius, 231;