Category: History - Religious
Before we proceed to examine the evidence for miracles and the reality of Divine Revelation which is furnished by the last historical book of the New Testament, entitled the "Acts of the Apostles," it is well that we should briefly recall to mind some characteristics of the do...
conclusion of the majority of critics,(1) including many apologists, who, whilst suggesting that, for some reason, Barnabas may alone have gone to Jerusalem without Paul, or oth...
24. v. 12; for in no form of the narrative of Paul's vision on the way tosuggested by the story just quoted. How did Ananias know that Paul had authority from the chief priests to arrest any one? How could he argue in such a way with the Lord? Did he...
22. CHAPTER II. THE EVIDENCE OF THE GOSPELSIn order more fully to appreciate the nature of the narratives which the four evangelists give of the last hours of the life of Jesus, we may take them up at the point where, mo...
23. CHAPTER III. THE EVIDENCE OF PAULWe may now proceed to examine the evidence of Paul. "On one occasion," it is affirmed in a passage already quoted, "he gives a very circumstantial account of the testimony upon...
8. CHAPTER IV. PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY.We now enter upon a portion of our examination of the Acts which is so full of interest in itself that peculiar care will be requisite to restrain ourselves within necessary lim...
19. xiv. 29, "Let Prophets speak two or three, and let the others discernWe reserve the "kinds of tongues" and "interpretation of tongues" for separate treatment, and proceed to vv. 28ff. in which, after illustrating his meaning by the analogy of the...
6. CHAPTER III. DESIGN AND COMPOSITIONThe historical value of the Acts of the Apostles has very long been the subject of vehement discussion, and the course of the controversy has certainly not been favourable to th...
11. CHAPTER VI. PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH. PETER AND CORNELIUS.We have been forced to enter at such length into the discussion of the speech and martyrdom of Stephen, that we cannot afford space to do more than merely glance at the proceedi...
12. CHAPTER VII. PAUL THE APOSTLE OF THE GENTILESWe have now arrived at the point in our examination of the Acts in which we have the inestimable advantage of being able to compare the narrative of the unknown author with the...
1. CHAPTER I. THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCEBefore we proceed to examine the evidence for miracles and the reality of Divine Revelation which is furnished by the last historical book of the New Testament, entitled the "Ac...
5. i. 1, and consequently prepares the reader to expect that, where itis desirable, he will resume the direct mode of communication; and in support of this supposition, it is asserted that the very same peculiarities of style and language exist in...
9. CHAPTER V. STEPHEN THE MARTYRBefore the Apostle of the Gentiles himself comes on the scene, and is directly brought in contact with the Twelve, we have to study the earlier incidents narrated in the Acts, w...
17. xvi. 21-24, and thus the letter was completed; but, as it could notimmediately be forwarded, the apostle added a fly-leaf with ch. xv. Bertholdt(2) Guericke(3) and others adopted similar views more or less modified, representing the close of th...
20. xiv. 13, 27, 28), but was at least often a separate gift possessedwithout the kinds of tongues (cf. xii. 10, 28, xiv. 26, 28). Nothing can be more specific than xii. 10"... to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues;...
21. CHAPTER I. THE RELATION OF EVIDENCE TO SUBJECTWhen the evidence of the Gospels regarding the great central dogmas of ecclesiastical Christianity is shown to be untrustworthy and insufficient, apologists appeal with confiden...
7. xviii. 5, and that the Hebrew word used always expresses pains of birth,the plural of the similar word for "cord" or "snare" being different. Ebrard, therefore, contends that the Psalm (xviii. 5) does not mean bonds or snares of death but literally...
2. xvii. 24, 25, quoted above, and it only serves to show how common suchlanguage was. Lardner himself says of the passage: "This is much the same thought, and applied to the same purpose, with Paul's, Acts xvii. 25, _as though he needeth anything_....
3. CHAPTER II. EVIDENCE REGARDING THE AUTHORSHIPIf we proceed further to discuss the document before us, it is from no doubt as to the certainty of the conclusion at which we have now arrived, but from the belief that closer...
10. vi. 9 to the end of the seventh chapter, in order to discover whatlinguistic analogy it bears to the rest of the Acts and to the third Synoptic, which for the sake of brevity we shall simply designate "Luke." With the exception of a very few w...
15. CHAPTER II. THE EVIDENCE OF PAULIt is better, before proceeding to examine the testimony of Paul for the Resurrection, to clear the way by considering his evidence for miracles in general, apart from that spec...
18. x. 5, where he describes metaphorically his weapons as not carnal, but_captivity_ every thought to the obedience of the Christ;" and if we ventured to offer an opinion, it would be that Paul means by [------] simply Christian theology. We merely o...
16. chapter xv. (33) but also at xvi. 20. The doxology, xvi. 25-27, whichmore particularly demands our attention, is stated by Origen(1) to be placed in some MSS at the end of ch. xiv.; and a similar statement is made by Cyril, Chrysostom, Theodoret,...
14. CHAPTER I. THE EPISTLES AND THE APOCALYPSETurning from the Acts of the Apostles to the other works of the New Testament, we shall be able very briefly to dispose of the Catholic Epistles, the Epistle to the Hebrews and...
4. iv. 14, does not distinguish a different Luke from the person of thatname in the Epistles to Philemon and Timothy. If this were the case, our information would be further reduced; but supposing that the same Luke is referred to, what does our inf...