where it has no proper place,--but notes of time, &c., ['like the unique and indubitably genuine word [Greek: deuteroprotoi][150],' are omitted as carrying no moral lesson, as well as longer passages like the case of the two verses recounting the ministering Angel with the Agony and the Bloody Sweat[151].
That Lessons from the New Testament were probably read in the assemblies of the faithful according to a definite scheme, and on an established system, at least as early as the fourth century, has been shewn to follow from plain historical fact in the tenth chapter of the Twelve Last Verses of St.Mark's Gospel, to which the reader is referred for more detailed information.

Cyril, at Jerusalem,--and by implication, his namesake at Alexandria,--Chrysostom, at Antioch and at Constantinople,-- Augustine, in Africa,--all four expressly witness to the circumstance.
In other words, there is found to have been at least at that time fully established throughout the Churches of Christendom a Lectionary, which seems to have been essentially one and the same in the West and in the East.

That it must have been of even Apostolic antiquity may be inferred from several considerations[152].

For example, Marcion, in A.D.

140, would hardly have constructed an Evangelistarium and Apostolicon of his own, as we learn from Epiphanius[153], if he had not been induced by the Lectionary System prevailing around him to form a counterplan of teaching upon the same model.] Sec.