the cave, confines himself to the circumstances of the synoptic
narrative.

The next place respecting the Nativity shall be one from ch. c.:--

"But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy, when the angel Gabriel
announced the good tidings to her that the Spirit of the Lord would
come upon her, and the power of the Highest would overshadow her;
wherefore also the Holy Thing begotten of her is the Son of God: and
she replied, 'Be it unto me according to Thy word.'"

Here both the words of the angel and the answer of the virgin are almost
identical with the words in St. Luke's Gospel; Justin, however, putting
his account into the oblique narrative.

We will put the two side by side that the reader may compare them.

[GREEK TABLE]

Pistin de kai charan labousa |
Maria hê parthenos euangelizomenou |
autê Gabriêl angelou, hoti pneuma | Pneuma hagion epeleusetai epi
kyriou ep' autên epeleusetai, | se, kai dynamis hypsistou
kai dunamis hypsistou episkiasei | episkiasei soi, dio kai to gennômenon
autên, dio kai to gennômenon | hagion klêthêsetai Hyios Theou.
ex autês hagion estin Hyios Theou, | * * * * *
apekrinato, Genoito moi kata to | Genoito moi kaia to rhêma sou.
rhêma sou. |

Now of these words, _as existing in St. Luke_, the author of