Category: History - Ancient
Egypt, in our days, ceasing to be any more the land of bondage, has, in more senses than one, become a veritable Land of Promise. It is a rich mine of historical and literary wealth, alas! most inadequately worked, and in that fine climate, with its clear dry air, the footprin...
Egypt, in our days, ceasing to be any more the land of bondage, has, in more senses than one, become a veritable Land of Promise. It is a rich mine of historical and literary we...
2. Part 2Eusebius(13) mentions a certain number of works attributed to the Apostle Peter: the first Epistle, generally acknowledged as genuine, “but that which is called the second,” he...
3. Part 3A number of small points might be added to these, but we do not go into them here. A majority of the critics who have discussed the question are of opinion that Justin made use...
4. Part 4It is not quite clear what Dr. Swete means when he says that Peter “uses it freely,” but it would indeed be singular if he seemed to be conscious that he was guilty of an anachr...
5. Part 5We have already discussed, in connection with Justin’s reference, the passage of Peter in which it is said that “they clad him with purple and set him on a seat of judgment, say...
6. Part 6The most important part of the passage is that in _v._ 16: “And one of them said: ‘Give him to drink gall with vinegar;’ and having mixed they gave him to drink.” This proceedin...
7. Part 728. But the scribes and Pharisees and elders assembled themselves together (συναχθέντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους), hearing that all the people murmured and beat their breasts, saying, “If...
8. Part 8MATTHEW xxvii. MARK xv. LUKE xxiii. 55. And many women 40. And there were 49. And all his were there beholding also women beholding acquaintance, and from afar, which had from a...
9. Part 9The theory of “tendency” was sure to be advanced as an explanation of differences of treatment of the same story, but this seems to us much exaggerated in what is said of the Go...
10. Part 10Is it not also pressing the writer’s thoughts a little too far to suggest such trains of childish interpretation as the origin of all his characteristic representations? Mr. Har...
11. Part 117 Lods, _De Evang. secundum Petrum_, 1892, pp. 8 ff.; Harnack, _Bruchstücke d. Evang. u.s.w. des Petrus_, zweite Aufl. 1893, p. 41; Zahn, _Das Ev. des Petrus_, 1893, pp. 5 f., 7...
12. Part 12107 Cf. Justin, _Apol._ i. 55: _Dial._ lxxxvi. xci.; Irenaeus, _C. Haer._ ii. 24, 4; v. 17, 3 f. In the _Ev. Nicod._ ii. (Lat. B), in which the descent is fully treated, Jesus C...