part I

. p. 32. The few works of the same kind written in the early and middle ages are noticed in Horne's _Introduct._, vol. ii. p. 274. About the year 330, Juvencus, a Spaniard, wrote the evangelical history in heroic verse. Of far greater merit were the four books of Augustine, _De Consensu Quatuor Evangeliorum_. After a long interval, Ludolphus the Saxon, a Carthusian monk, published a work which passed through thirty editions in Germany, besides being translated into French and Italian. Some years ago I made out the following list of Harmonies, Diatessarons, and Synoptical tables, published since the Reformation, which may in some measure meet the wish of your correspondent. It is probably incomplete. The dates are those of the first editions.

|Osiander, 1537. | Büsching, 1756. |Jansenius, 1549. | Macknight, 1756. |Chemnitz, 1593. | Bertlings, 1767. |Lightfoot, 1654. | Griesbach, 1776. |Cradock, 1668. | Priestley (Greek), 1777. |Richardson, 1654.| Priestley (Eng.), 1780. |Sandhagen, 1684. | Newcome (Greek), 1778. |Le Clerc, 1699. | Newcome (Eng.), 1802. |Whiston, 1702. | White, 1799. |Toinard, 1707. | De Wette, 1818. |Rein Rus, 1727. | Thompson, R., 1808. |Bengelius, 1736. | Chambers, 1813. |Hauber, 1737. | Thompson, C., 1815. |Doddridge, 1739. | Warner, 1819. |Pilkington, 1747.| Carpenter, 1835. |Michaelis, 1750. |

J. M.

Cranwell, near Bath.

Tatian wrote his ~Euangelion dia tôn tessarôn~ as early as the year 170. It is no longer extant, but we have some reason for believing that this Harmony had been compiled in an unfriendly spirit (Theodoret, _Hæret. Fabul._, lib. i. c. 20.). Tatian was followed by Ammonius, whose ~Harmonia~ appeared about 230; and in the next century by Eusebius and St. Ambrose, the former entitling his production ô~Peri tês tôn Euangeliôn diaphônias~, the latter _Concordia Evangelii Mattæi et Lucæ_. But by far the ablest of the ancient writings on this subject is the _De Consensu Evangelistarum_ of St. Augustine. Many authors, such as Porphyry, in his ~Kata Christianôn logoi~, had pointed with an air of triumph to the seeming discrepancies in the Evangelic records as an argument subversive of their claim to paramount authority ("Hoc enim solent quasi palmare suæ vanitatis objicere, quod ipsi Evangelistæ inter seipsos dissentiant."--Lib. i. c. 7.). In writing these objections St. Augustine had to handle nearly all the difficulties which offend the microscopic critics of the present day. His work was urged afresh upon the notice of the biblical scholar by Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris, who died in 1429. The _Monotessaron, seu unum ex quatuor Evangeliis_ of that gifted writer will be found in Du Pin's edition of his _Works_, iv. 83. sq. Some additional information respecting Harmonies is supplied in Ebrard's _Wissenschaftliche Kritik der evangelischen Geschichte_, pp. 36. sq. Francfurt a. M., 1842.

C. HARDWICK.

St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.

Seiler says (_Bibl. Herm._,