[39] See Matt. xix. 11, 12.

[40] "Strom." iii. 1.

[41] "Hær." xxiv. 5.

[42] Tertullian, "Adv. Marc." xi. 5, cf. 9.

[43] Ibid. xi. 10.

[44] Matt. xiii. 44.

[45] "Orat. ad Gr." § 30.

[46] Eusebius, "H. E." iv. 23.

[47] "Hist. Christ. Lit. and Doct." ii. p. 217.

[48] See Chr. Wordsworth, "On the Canon," p. 55. Lec. ii. and Ed. 1851.