or in Mark. It is only on this point that
properly-informed (_sachkundige_) critics differ," and
he decides in favour of Mark.

[69] Holtzmann (_Die synoptischen Evangelien_, 1863, p. 75),
following Ewald, argues that the "Source A" (= the
threefold tradition, more or less) contained something
that answered to the "Sermon on the Plain" immediately
after the words of our present Mark, "And he cometh
into a house" (iii. 19). But what conceivable motive
could "Mark" have for omitting it? Holtzmann has no
doubt, however, that the "Sermon on the Mount" is a
compilation, or, as he calls it in his
recently-published _Lehrbuch_ (p. 372), "an artificial
mosaic work."

[70] See Schuerer, _Geschichte des juedischen Volkes_,
Zweiter Thiel, p. 384.

[71] Spacious, because a young man could sit in it "on the
right side" (xv. 5), and therefore with plenty of room
to spare.

[72] King Herod had not the least difficulty in supposing
the resurrection of John the Baptist--"John, whom I
beheaded, he is risen" (Mark vi. 16).

[73] I am very sorry for the interpolated "in," because
citation ought to be accurate in small things as in
great. But what difference it makes whether one
"believes Jesus" or "believes in Jesus" much thought
has not enabled me to discover. If you "believe him"
you must believe him to be what he professed to
be--that is, "believe in him;" and if you "believe in
him" you must necessarily "believe him."

[74] True for Justin: but there is a school of theological
critics, who more or less question the historical
reality of Paul, and the genuineness of even the four
cardinal epistles.

[75] See _Dial. cum Tryphone_, Sec.47 and Sec.35. It is to be
understood that Justin does not arrange these
categories in order, as I have done.

[76] I guard myself against being supposed to affirm that
even the four cardinal epistles of Paul may not have
been seriously tampered with. See note 1, p. 287 above.

[77] Paul, in fact, is required to commit in Jerusalem, an act
of the same character as that which he brands as
"dissimulation" on the part of Peter