Eusebius, in fact, far from exaggerating the authority of Papias, is embarrassed at his simple ingenuousness, at his gross millenarianism, and solves the difficulty by treating him as a man of little mind.Comp.

Irenaeus, _Adv.

Haer._, iii.

1.] [Footnote 2: That is to say, in the Semitic dialect.] It matters little for our present object to push this delicate analysis further, and to endeavor to reconstruct in some manner, on the one hand, the original _Logia_ of Matthew, and, on the other, the primitive narrative such as it left the pen of Mark.

The _Logia_ are doubtless represented by the great discourses of Jesus which fill a considerable part of the first Gospel.