sub fin.; _B.J._, prooem I; V.vi.3, V.ix.2, VI.ii.

1: _Against Appian_, I.9; _De Macc._, 12, 16).

We shall show, later, that some of the documents which served as the basis for the synoptic Gospels were written in this Semitic dialect.

It was the same with many of the Apocrypha (IV.
Book of Macc.xvi.ad calcem, &c.).

In fine, the sects issuing directly from the first Galilean movement (Nazarenes, _Ebionim_, &c.), which continued a long time in Batanea and Hauran, spoke a Semitic dialect (Eusebius, _De Situ et Nomin.Loc.