MATTHEW.           CLEMENT.           LUKE.              MARK.
xxvi. 24.          He said:           xvii. 1.          xiv. 21.  Woe to
Woe to that       Woe to that man;  Woe through       that man by whom
man by whom       well for him      whom they         the Son of man is
the Son of man    that he had not   (offences)        delivered up, well
is delivered      been born, than   come.             for him if that
up; well for      that he should    2.  It were        man had not been
him if that       offend one of my  advantageous for  born.
man had not       elect; better     him that a great  ix. 42.  And
been born.        for him a         millstone were    whosoever shall
xviii. 6.  But     millstone should  hanged around     offend one of
whoso shall       be attached (to   his neck, and he  these little ones
offend one of     him), and he      cast in the sea,  which believe in
these little      should be         than that he      me, it is well for
ones which        drowned in the    should offend     him rather that a
believe in me, it sea, than that    one of these      great millstone
were profitable   he should offend  little ones.      were hanged about
for him that a    one of my little                    his neck, and he
great millstone   ones.                               thrown in the sea.
were suspended
upon his
neck, and that
he were drowned
in the depth
of the sea.

“This quotation is clearly not from our Gospels, but is derived from a different written source....  The slightest comparison of the passage with our Gospels is sufficient to convince any unprejudiced mind that it is neither a combination of texts, nor a quotation from memory.  The language throughout is markedly different, and, to present even a superficial parallel, it is necessary to take a fragment of the discourse of Jesus at the Last Supper, regarding the traitor who should deliver him up (Matt. xxvi. 24), and join it to a fragment of his remarks in connection with the little child whom he set in the midst (xviii. 6)” ("Sup.  Rel.,” vol. i., pp. 233, 234).

In Polycarp a passage is found much resembling that given from Clement, chap, xiii., but not exactly reproducing it, which is open to the same criticism as that passed on Clement.

If we desire to prove that Gospels other than the Canonical were in use, the proof lies ready to our hands.  In chap. xlvi. of Clement we read:  “It is written, cleave to the holy, for they who cleave to them shall be made holy.”  In chap. xliv.:  “And our Apostles knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that there would be contention regarding the office of the episcopate.”  The author of “Supernatural Religion” gives us passages somewhat resembling this.  He said:  “There shall be schisms and heresies,” from Justin Martyr ("Trypho,” chap. xxxv):  “There shall be, as the Lord said, false apostles, false prophets, heresies, desires for supremacy,” from the “Clementine Homilies”:  “From these came the false Christs, false prophets, false apostles, who divided the unity of the Church,” from Hegesippus (vol. i. p. 236).