N 1950 the Catholic Biblical Quarterly published the Greek text, with an English translation and philological commentary, of what the author, the late Paul R. Coleman-Norton, at that time Associate Professor of Latin at Princeton University, entitled, "An Amusing Agraphon."l According to the highly circumstantial account in the opening paragraphs of the article, in 1943 during the Second World War the author was stationed with the U.S. armed forces at Fedhala in French Morocco. Here one day in the town's Mohammedan mosque he was shown an Arabic codex in which was "a single unnumbered page of Greek, sandwiched between two tracts on materia medica." The contents of the page, as was disclosed later when the author studied the transcript which the imam had allowed him to make, turned out to be a fragment of a Greek translation of the Latin Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum, which is a collection of homilies on chs. 1-13 and 19-25 of the Gospel according to Matthew. At the conclusion of Matt 24:51, which in the canonical text refers to the judgment when "men will weep and gnash their teeth," the fragment continues with the question, raised by one of the disciples, how these things can be for persons who happen to be toothless. Whereupon Jesus replies, "Teeth will be provided." However amusing one may regard this account, there is no doubt at all that the agraphon is a forgery-whether ancient or modern, opinions may differ. For the present writer, at any rate, it is difficult not to think that it is a modern forgery, for prior to World War II in a class of Latin Patristics Professor Coleman-Norton regaled his students (of whom the present writer was one) with a witticism about dentures being provided in the next world so that all the damned might be able to weep and gnash their teeth. The story of the "discovery" of the agraphon adds one more instance to an *The Presidential Address delivered October 29, 1971, at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, held in the Regency Hyatt House, Atlanta, Georgia. 1CBQ 12 (1950) 439-49.