s in the Gospels, from a MS. in the Vatican.(76)
These, the learned Cardinal republished more accurately in 1847, in his
"Nova Patrum Bibliotheca;"(77) and hither we are invariably referred by
those who cite Eusebius as a witness against the genuineness of the
concluding verses of the second Gospel.

It is much to be regretted that we are still as little as ever in
possession of the lost work of Eusebius. It appears to have consisted of
three Books or Parts; the former two (addressed "to Stephanus") being
discussions of difficulties at the beginning of the Gospel,--the last ("to
Marinus") relating to difficulties in its concluding chapters.(78) The
Author's plan, (as usual in such works), was, first, to set forth a
difficulty in the form of a Question; and straightway, to propose a
Solution of it,--which commonly assumes the form of a considerable
dissertation. But whether we are at present in possession of so much as a
single entire specimen of these "Inquiries and Resolutions" exactly as it
came from the pen of Eusebius, may reasonably be doubted. That the work
which Mai has brought to light is but a highly condensed exhibition of the
original, (and scarcely that,) its very title shews; for it is headed,--"An
abridged selection from the 'Inquiries and Resolutions [of difficulties]
in the Gospels' by Eusebius."(79) Only _some_ of the original Questions,
therefore, are here noticed at all: and even these have been subjected to
so severe a process of condensation and abridgment, that in some instances
_amputation_ would probably be a more fitting description of what has
taken place. Accordingly, what were originally two Books or Parts, are at
present represented by XVI. "Inquiries," &c, addressed "to Stephanus;"
while the concluding Book or Part is represented by IV. more, "to
Marinus,"--of which, _the first_ relates to our LORD'S appearing to Mary
Magdalene after His Resurrection. Now, since the work which Eusebius
addressed to Marinus is found to have contained "Inquiries, with their
Resolutions, concerning our SAVIOUR'S _Death_ and Resurrection,"(80)--while
a quotation professing to be derived from "the _thirteenth_ chapter"
relates to Simon the Cyrenian bearing our SAVIOUR'S Cross;(81)--it is
obvious that the original work must have been very considerable, and that
what Mai has recovered gives an utterly inadequate idea of its extent and
importance.(82) It is absolutely necessary that all this should be clearly
appreh