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have a right to know, that something more than a 

 hasty glimpse of two or three passages of Joseph us 

 (even with as many episcopal works thrown in) 

 lay at the back of the few paragraphs I devoted to 

 the Gadarene story. I proceed to set forth, as 

 briefly as I can, some results of that preparatory 

 work. My artistic principles do not permit m 

 present, to express a doubt that Mr. Gladstone 

 was acquainted with the facts I am about to 

 mention when he undertook to write. But, if he 

 did know them, then both what he has said and 

 what he has not said, his assertions and his 

 omissions alike, will require a paragraph to them- 

 selves. 



The common consent of the synoptic Gospels 

 affirms that the miraculous transference of devils 

 from a man, or men, to sundry pigs, took place 

 somewhere on the eastern shore of the Lake of 

 Tiberias ; " on the other side of the sea over 

 against Galflee," the western shore being, without 

 doubt, included in the latter province. But there 

 is no such concord when we come to the name of 

 the part of the eastern shore, on which, according 

 to the story, Jesus and his disciples landed. In the 

 revised version, Matthew calls it the " country of 

 the Gadarenes :" Luke and Mark have " Gerasenes.* 

 In sundry very ancient manuscripts " Gergesenes " 

 occurs. 



The existence of any place called Geigesa, how- 

 ever, is declared by the weightiest authorities 



