[150:3] It is true that he uses the present tense once, [Greek: ha te Aristiôn kai ho presbuteros Iôannês ... _legousin_] [see above, p. 143], and hence it has been inferred that these two persons were still living when the inquiries were instituted. But this would involve a chronological difficulty; and the tense should probably be regarded as a historic present introduced for the sake of variety.
[150:4] _S.R._ I. p. 444, 'About the middle of the second century.' Elsewhere (II. p. 320) he speaks of Papias as 'flourishing in the second half of the second century.'
[151:1] Justin Martyr _Dial._ 51 sq (p. 271 sq), 80 sq (p. 307); Irenæus _Hær._ v. 81 sq; Tertullian _adv. Marc._ iii. 24, _de Resurr. Carn._ 24.
[152:2] These are the expressions employed elsewhere of this Gospel; _H.E._ iii. 25, 27; iv. 22.
[152:3] _H.E._ iii. 39 [Greek: hên to kat' Hebraious euangelion periechei].
[152:4] Clem. _Strom._ ii. 9 (p. 453). Our author says, 'Clement of Alexandria quotes it [the Gospel according to the Hebrews] with quite the same respect as the other Gospels' (_S.R._ i. p. 422). He cannot have remembered, when he wrote this, that Clement elsewhere refuses authority to a saying in an Apocryphal Gospel because 'we do not find it in the four Gospels handed down to us' (_Strom._ iii. 13, p. 553). 'Origen,' writes our author again, 'frequently made use of the Gospel according to the Hebrews' (_l.c._). Yes; but Origen draws an absolute line of demarcation between our four Gospels and the rest. He even illustrates the relation of these Canonical Gospels to the Apocryphal by that of the true prophets to the false under the Jewish dispensation. _Hom. I. in Luc._ (III. p. 932). Any reader unacquainted with the facts would carry away a wholly false impression from our author's account of the use made of the Gospel according to the Hebrews.
[152:5] _S.R._ I. pp. 272 sq, 332 sq. The fact that Eusebius did not know the source of this quotation (_H.E._ iii. 36), though he was well acquainted with the Gospel according to the Hebrews, seems to me to render this very doubtful.
[153:1] Boeckh _Corp. Inscr._ 3817, [Greek: Papia Dii sôtêri].
[153:2] Boeckh 3930, 3912a App.: Mionnet iv. p. 301.
[153:4] Galen _Op._ xii. p. 799 (ed. Kühn).