_THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS--continued._
The Epistles of Ignatius--One Version allowed to be genuine--The Epistle
of Polycarp to the Philippians: its acceptance as genuine by
Irenæus--Hegesippus--Fragments only preserved of his writings--The
impossibility of knowing what was in the portions notextant--
Papias--His evidence respecting Mark's Gospel--His assertion
that Matthew wrote in Hebrew, and Tischendorf's opinion that he wrote
in Greek--Justin Martyr--His reference to the Memoirs called
Gospels--The Clementine Homilies--Important quotation from
Matthew--Paul's Epistle to the Church at Laodicea--Construction of
Matthew's Gospel--The Epistle to Diognetus 75