The two camps could be illustrated, on the one hand by Larry Hurtado, who thinks it is “inadvisable to rest too much on Secret Mark” as the letter “that quotes it might be a forgery” and even if it is genuine, Secret Mark “may be at most an ancient but secondary edition of Mark produced in the second century by some group seeking to promote its own esoteric interests”, and by Francis Watson, who hopes and expects that Secret Mark will be increasingly ignored by scholars to avoid “that their work will be corrupted by association with it”.