(_e_) Further, these same "Twelve Verses" constituted the Lesson at Matins for _the 2nd Sunday after Easter_,--a Sunday which by the Greeks is called { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH OXIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, but with the Syrians bore the names of "Joseph and Nicodemus."(383) So also in the "Evangeliarium Hierosolymitanum."
(_f_) Next, in the Monophysite Churches of Syria, S. Mark xvi. 9-18 (or 9-20(384)) was also read at Matins on _Easter-Tuesday_.(385) In the Gallican Church, the third lection for _Easter-Monday_ extended from S. Mark xv. 47 to xvi. 11: for _Easter-Tuesday_, from xvi. 12 to the end of the Gospel.(386) Augustine says that in Africa also these concluding verses of S. Mark's Gospel used to be publicly read _at Easter tide_.(387) The same verses (beginning with ver. 9) are indicated in the oldest extant Lectionary of the Roman Church.(388)
(_g_) Lastly, it may be stated that S. Mark xvi. 9-20 was with the Greeks the Gospel for the Festival of S. Mary Magdalene ({ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH DASIA~} { ~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{ ~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}), July 22.(389)
_He_ knows wondrous little about this department of Sacred Science who can require to be informed that such a weight of _public_ testimony as this to the last Twelve Verses of a Gospel is simply overwhelming. The single discovery that in the age of Augustine [385-430] this portion of S. Mark's Gospel was unquestionably read at Easter in the Churches of Africa, added to the express testimony of the Author of the 2nd Homily on the Resurrection, and of the oldest Syriac MSS., that they were also read by the Orientals at Easter in the public services of the Church, must be held to be in a manner decisive of the question.