Category: History - Religious
We must now as briefly as possible examine the evidence furnished by the apocryphal religious romance generally known by the name of "The Clementines," and assuming, falsely of course,(1) to be the composition of the Roman Clement. The Clementines are composed of three princip...
him: Teacher, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall ask thee. 36. And he said unto them: What would ye that I should do for you? 37. They said unto him: Gra...
11. CHAPTER X. PTOLEMAEUS AND HERACLEON--CELSUS--THE CANON OFWe have now reached the extreme limit of time within which we think it in any degree worth while to seek for evidence as to the date and authorship of the synoptic Gospels, and...
5. CHAPTER VII. MARCIONWe must now turn to the great Heresiarch of the second century, Marcion, and consider the evidence regarding our Gospels which may be derived from what we know of him. The impor...
17. iii. 39), and goes on to contradict the statement of Irenaeusprevious argument, he proceeds:(1) Sec. 1. "And that these things shall ever remain without end Isaiah says: 'For like as the new heaven and the new earth which I make remain be...
1. CHAPTER V. THE CLEMENTINES--THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUSWe must now as briefly as possible examine the evidence furnished by the apocryphal religious romance generally known by the name of "The Clementines," and assuming, falsely of...
8. CHAPTER VIII. TATIAN--DIONYSIUS OF CORINTHFrom Marcion we now turn to Tatian, another so-called heretic leader. Tatian, an Assyrian by birth,(1) embraced Christianity and became a disciple of Justin Martyr(2) in Rome, s...
9. CHAPTER IX. MELITO OF SARDIS--CLAUDIUS APOLLINARIS--ATHENAGORAS--THE EPISTLE OF VIENNE AND LYONS.We might here altogether have passed over Melito, Bishop of Sardis in Lydia, had it not been for the use of certain fragments of his writings made by Canon Westcott. Melito, nat...
12. CHAPTER I. THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE"We shall now examine, in the same order, the witnesses already cited in connection with the Synoptics, and ascertain what evidence they furnish for the date and authenticity of...
16. xii. 10, with the same variation from the text of the Septuagint as John[------] instead of [------], arising out of an emendation of the translation of the Hebrew original. Tischendorf says: "Nothing can be more opposed to probability, than the sup...
13. viii. 3 we have: "God sending his own Son in the likeness of the fleshof sin," &c. [------] It must be borne in mind that the terminology of John i. 14, "and the word became flesh" [------] is different from that of Justin, who uses the word [----...
4. Book iii., the plural being systematically used, and the same distinctdefinition introduced at intervals.(2) And again, in the preface to Book iv. he recapitulates that the preceding books had been written against these, "qui sunt a Valentino" (Se...
18. v. 8: "But God giveth proof of his love towards us, in that while wewere yet sinners Christ died for us. 10.... through the death of his son." Chap. viii. 8, "God sending his son, &c. 29.... Them he also foreordained to bear the likeness of the...
20. CHAPTER II. AUTHORSHIP AND CHARACTER OF THE FOURTH GOSPELThe result of our inquiry into the evidence for the fourth Gospel is sufficiently decided to render further examination unnecessary. We have seen that, for some century and a ha...
7. chapter iv. verses 1--13, 17--20 and 24 were likewise probably absent.Some of the other more important omissions are xi. 29--32, 49--51, xiii. 1--9, 29--35, xv. 11--32, xvii. 5--10 (probably), xviii. 31--34, xix. 29--48, xx. 9--19, 37--38, xxi. 1-...
3. chapter v. Teschendorf does not claim any other quotations.Canon Westcott states: "In the few pages of his (Basilides') writings which remain there are certain references to the Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Luke,"(1) &c. One might suppos...
10. xvi. 18, the reading of Athenagoras,(3) but with important linguisticIt cannot, obviously, be rightly affirmed that Athenagoras must have derived this from Luke, and the sense of the passage in that Gospel, compared with the passage in Matthew xi...
2. CHAPTER VI. BASILIDES--VALENTINUS.We must now turn back to an earlier period, and consider any evidence regarding the Synoptic Gospels which may be furnished by the so-called heretical writers of the second cent...
6. v. 34, 35, "Can ye make the sons of the bridechamber fast, while thebridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then will they fast in those days." And he bids his disciples to be ready "lik...
14. ii. 5: "For there is one God and one mediator between God and man, theMan Christ Jesus; [------]; and again in Rom. v. 15: "... by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ" [------], as well as other passages.(1) We have already seen in the passage q...
15. iii. 15, reads: "And as the people were in expectation, and all musedin their hearts concerning John whether he were the Christ, 16. John answered, saying to them all: I indeed baptize you with water, but he that is stronger than I cometh, the la...
19. chapter xxi., with its testimony to the truth of the precedingnarrative. In his zeal, the writer goes so far as to falsify a passage of the Epistle, and convert it into a declaration by the author of the letter himself that he had written...